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LIFE AS MYTH
Index
JOURNAL
Index
JOURNAL 2016
A call to wonder
What I might be
FALL 2016
The lessons in art and life
Index
Walking at Walden's Pond
Learning to improvise
On the road to Brigid's well
The bear
Scheherazade in Manhattan
Riddlespeak
LIFEWORKS
About
ATLAS
Index
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AUTUMN 2016
LEARNING TO IMPROVISE
Brooklyn Heights, New York.
. . . Shortly after I married, I applied for a job at a mid-sized Southern newspaper. The editor who interviewed me said that a degree in television journalism prepared me to become a newspaper reporter about as much as a degree in Home Economics. No, he didn't hire me but not too long after that I got a job at a small FM radio station. The broadcast studio was embedded in the South Carolina backwoods and adjacent to a trailer park. I wrote and read the morning drive news, assisted by a technician who was blind and sometimes typed my copy on leftover black construction paper.
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