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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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How d’ya you like them apples?

Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING – As we pick our words and our apples, we should remember that they can become so much more when they inspire others to be creative. 

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NaNoWriMo update

Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING – Today was National Novel Writing Month’s Double-Up Donation Day, when participants try otodouble their daily word count and to make a contribution.

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Off to NaNoWriMo

Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING -I’m going to jump into National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo, again this November.

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‘A Captain’s Duty’

Reading Time: < 1 minute – REVIEW – The Tom Hanks movie “Captain Phillips” does a good job of telling the story, but the book carries the audience through his personal back story, family life, and an hour-by-hour account of the adventure with the Somali pirates.

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Don’t spoil the whole bunch

Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING – One day it’s Robert Frost, the next day it’s an old hit by The Osmonds. It’s amazing what goes through your head when you’re up on a ladder picking apples.

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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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Hair today, gone tomorrow

Reading Time: 3 minutes – HUMOR – I’ve been losing hair for years, if not decades. But to have a whole fistful of it disappear onto the floor at once? That’s drastic.

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Catching the breeze

Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING – For me, it was a perfect end of a summer that had seen no time on the water and little pushing a pencil.

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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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‘Living Here’ — Starting over

Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING -With permission from the Republican-American, I plan to self-publish “Living Here” columns to benefit the newspaper’s charity, the Greater Waterbury Campership Fund.

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