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In Other Words: Season 2, Episode 18

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Memorial Day weekend has always perplexed and frustrated me. The Monday holiday law turned a day of remembrance into “unofficial start of summer.” Continue reading In Other Words: Season 2, Episode 18

Howard FieldingMay 27, 2023May 28, 20237 Comments
FICTION, HAPPINESS, HISTORY, ON WRITING, SHORT TAKES

Another diversion, 1979

Reading Time: 2 minutes If I had treated my first year as a freelance writer like a real business, I would have seen that the end of the first quarter was approaching a crisis. Continue reading Another diversion, 1979

Howard FieldingApril 3, 2023April 4, 20231 Comment
HAPPINESS, ON WRITING, SHORT TAKES

In Other Words: Season 2, Episode 11

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Although this series may appear as yet another rabbit hole I’ve fallen down in my quest to finish a project — any project — it has several benefits. Continue reading In Other Words: Season 2, Episode 11

Howard FieldingMarch 19, 2023March 19, 2023Leave a comment
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In Other Words: Season 2, Episode 10

Reading Time: 2 minutes An author and educator friend likes this “story arc.” I hadn’t thought of a journal/memoir as a story, but I suppose the best ones are. Continue reading In Other Words: Season 2, Episode 10

Howard FieldingMarch 12, 2023March 12, 2023Leave a comment
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In Other Words: Season 2, Episode 8

Reading Time: 2 minutes Coincidentally, (or was it serendipity again?) one of those friends contacted me today through this blog for the first time. A fellow writer, she had a question. Continue reading In Other Words: Season 2, Episode 8

Howard FieldingFebruary 26, 2023February 26, 2023Leave a comment
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In Other Words: Season 2, Episode 4

Reading Time: 2 minutes Max Bialystock: So you’re an accountant, huh?
Leo Bloom : Yes, I am.
Max Bialystock : Then account for yourself! Continue reading In Other Words: Season 2, Episode 4

Howard FieldingJanuary 29, 2023February 4, 2023Leave a comment
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Week in Review: Season 2, Episode 1

Reading Time: 2 minutes Will any of this actually happen? Or will our hero be dashed against the rocks as real life intervenes? Tune in every weekend for Season 2! Continue reading Week in Review: Season 2, Episode 1

Howard FieldingJanuary 7, 2023January 6, 2023Leave a comment
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Year in Review 2022 (Week 52)

Reading Time: 2 minutes It took me nearly half a century to write and rewrite the play, which became a book about writing a play and how perfectionism and procrastination are this writer’s worst enemy. Continue reading Year in Review 2022 (Week 52)

Howard FieldingDecember 31, 2022December 27, 20221 Comment
HAPPINESS, HISTORY, HUMOR, LIVING HERE, ON WRITING, SHORT TAKES

Year in Review, 1978

Reading Time: 2 minutes Many of my year-end journal entries and most of my year-end columns for the newspaper started with a “good riddance” lede. This was the first. Continue reading Year in Review, 1978

Howard FieldingDecember 29, 2022December 7, 20222 Comments
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Week in Review: Week 44

Reading Time: 2 minutes Research for my book and on the history of Bubble Wrap continues. Could inventor Marc Chavannes have had something the Nazis wanted? Continue reading Week in Review: Week 44

Howard FieldingNovember 6, 2022November 12, 2022Leave a comment

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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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