Category: Comedy
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A Berkeley Episode: The Landlord
I moved to Berkeley in 1997. For the first year, I lived in a sort of communal house in El Cerrito by the BART station. It was a 5 bedroom house painted a butter-white stucco with a one-car garage that the owner had finished out into a 6th bedroom. I lived in that 6th bedroom.…
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The Magic of Curling
Curling. The sport no one knows about. Or very few people know about, anyway. And if you know about curling it’s because you play it or you know someone who does. So, what is curling? Curling – noun a game played on ice, especially in Scotland and Canada, in which large round flat stones are…
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I love Billy Collins
Billy Collins is my favorite poet (aside from Jim Danger Coppoc whose poetry I love for totally different reasons). I am writing for NaNoWriMo, as I have mentioned and I was looking for a snippet of poetry that would pop into the head of my hero and help her put the whole mystery together. But…
Mindy Carlson 