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With Howard Fielding | Celebrating Our Common Life, Liberty, and Happiness

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Howard Fielding's "Living Here" column ran for 25 years in The Sunday Republican of Waterbury, Connecticut. Now retired, he's still living here, online. Join him to enjoy sunsets, short uplifting essays, works in progress, special surprises, and the occasional trip down Memory Lane.

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NaNoWriMo Update: Halfway there

Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING -My project this year, “He Said, She Said,” is a story of a 40-year friendship between two journalists — he’s a conservative, she’s a liberal. It plays out against four decades of changes in society, politics, technology, the sexual revolution, and the news industry itself.

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‘Connecticut 169 Club’

Reading Time: 2 minutes – REVIEW – Part travel guide, part treasure hunt, part social network, “Connecticut 169 Club” is a lively, entertaining and well-illustrated guide to the state’s 169 municipalities.

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National Novel Writing Month returns

Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING – This time I’ll be tackling “He Said, She Said,” a novel about the career of a couple of journalists who start with a local newspaper just after the Watergate era.

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Tracey O’Shaughnessy collections

Reading Time: < 1 minute – REVIEW – This is writing in color, a rarity among the ink-stained grunts of the newspaper world (this reviewer included).

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Schrödinger’s Kitty

Reading Time: 2 minutes – HUMOR – Is the cat alive or dead? Or less macabre: Is she sleeping or is she in trouble?

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RSVP! It’s an emergency!

Reading Time: 3 minutes – HUMOR – “Stand by for an emergency notification from CT-Alert.” They wanted us to come to the National Night Out, complete with face painting and balloon art.

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