COVID-19 is all about human nature – and humans and nature
The world is wide, but I still find it difficult to stay six feet from people. Especially in the supermarket, with everyone focused more...
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JMR
- Mar 17, 2020
- 4 min
END OF AN ERA: TOM BRADY LEAVES THE PATRIOTS
The first professional football game I ever attended was on September 19, 1971. It was the first game of the first season for the New...
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JMR
- Mar 12, 2020
- 2 min
Love in the Time of Coronavirus
This is a bad time to be dating. Though the weather is getting warmer, the daylight is getting longer, and crocuses – the most determined...
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JMR
- Jan 8, 2020
- 4 min
design: a closer look at the gentle giant logotype
In 1969, King Crimson shocked the music world with its peerless debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King. Yet even before one could...
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JMR
- Dec 31, 2019
- 2 min
My Vision for 2020
It's natural on New Year's Eve Day to look backward and forward in the same moment. At this juncture in history, the temporal dividing...
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JMR
- Nov 1, 2019
- 2 min
Four Thoughts on nanowrimo
Since 1999, November has been National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), in which participants attempt to write a 50,000-word manuscript...
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JMR
- Jun 2, 2019
- 1 min
POEM: “Love Is Purple”
In the fall of 2018, I joined The Malden Writer’s Collaborative, a writer’s group in the city where I live. In addition to workshopping...
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JMR
- Apr 18, 2019
- 2 min
Open Poem to Bob Dylan: where have all the protest songs gone?
Every minute of every day of every week of every year since Trump has been elected has been a tragedy for our nation and our world. Some...
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JMR
- Mar 31, 2019
- 4 min
Concert review: Jon Anderson @ Lynn Auditorium, March 29, 2019
Jon Anderson made his name and earned his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame credentials fronting Yes, a collective of virtuosic musicians he...
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JMR
- Mar 26, 2019
- 7 min
What’s the book about, anyway?
I am so excited that Ancient Tales Newly Told is now available for purchase! Follow any of the links on my home page to order your copy....
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JMR
- Mar 6, 2019
- 1 min
The new home of Dove Nested Towers
Dove Nested Towers is a phrase from a lyric by Van Dyke Parks for the song “Surf's Up”, which was composed by Brian Wilson in 1966 for...
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