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Living Here Together

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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  • ON WRITING (38)
  • REVIEWS (12)
  • RHETORIC REFEREE (6)
  • SHORT TAKES (59)

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Nothing up my sleeve…

Reading Time: 5 minutes – WRITING LIFE – How an internship for Reader’s Digest launched my interest in Houdini and a story that would haunt me for life.

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The Old Man and the Seed

Reading Time: 6 minutes – HUMOR – The old man and his wife moved to the country from the suburbs. And the squirrels moved with them. Illustrated and inspired by true events.

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The Indefensible ‘If True’

Reading Time: 2 minutes – RHETORIC REFEREE – The words ‘If True’ make the difference between real and fake news, especially in an echo chamber.

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The Moral Equivalent

Reading Time: 7 minutes – SHORT STORY – In this scene from “He Said, She Said,” the owner of the Morning Sun and Evening Star tells “the troops” just what it means to go to war with an unseen enemy.

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‘Living Here’ — Beginner Error

Reading Time: 2 minutes – WRITING – A first try at my first book weighs in at 3,219 pages. Apparently some editing is in order.

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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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The birth of Bubble Wrap

Reading Time: 5 minutes – HISTORY – Bubble Wrap failed as wallpaper and insulation before its inventors struck on the idea of packaging. Excerpt from nomination of Alfred W. Fielding and Marc A. Chavannes to National Inventors Hall of Fame.

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Blogroll

  • Civil Eyes 321 — J.M. Gifford's blog about civil public discourse.
  • Erin Covey Creative — wedding portfolios by my favorite portrait photogapher.
  • The Bee's Pajamas — Beverly Foster Seinberg’s "random stuff from an aging Aspie brain.”
  • The Thinkers' Club – Shekhar Dasgupta's delightful and insightful essays.
  • Wild About Harry — Joe Cox’s longstanding home to everything Houdini.

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Living Here Together by Howard Fielding is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. No commercial use. Republication or derivations of original fiction and copyrighted material prohibited. Original photos may be used with attribution.

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