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79American Horse Soldiers In Afghanistan -- Book Review
It’s stunning to think that we "invaded" Afghanistan only about one month after 9/11. Doug Stanton’s Horse Soldiers, for the most part, effectively depicts a new kind of warfare, redefining the term "invasion." From a base in Uzbekistan, we...
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78Dialogue - Finding Your Fiction: Concise Steps to Writing Successful Fiction
"Finding Your Fiction: Concise Steps to Writing Successful Fiction" hubpages are derived from my popular "Finding Your Fiction" workshop in association with St. Louis Writers Workshop and St. Louis Writers Guild. Completed guide is NOW AVAILABLE on...
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76The Wells Creek Route - Pushcart Prize Nominee
The Wells Creek Route was published in 2008 by The Rambler - a magazine of personal expression and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. "It is always hard for us to narrow down the stories and poems in the magazine to nominate, but The Wells Creek...
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78The Essence of Teaching and Learning
I remember when my eighteen month old son toddled up to me, put his little finger on my shirt button and said, "That’s a button!" His first complete sentence. Made me proud and excited. The potential. Somehow he had learned language. When I...
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78Fly Fishing Made Easy in Missouri
About five years ago, I started a side-business called St. Louis Stream Adventures. Since I had over thirty years of teaching and fly-fishing experience, I felt comfortable enough combining two of my three passions into one, offering tours and...
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71The First Fiction-Writing “How To”
Show, don’t tell. Write what you know. Don’t quit your day job. Sherwin Cody advised and instructed beginning fiction writers to follow each of those now cliched writing truisms. In his 1894 How to...
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74Climbing in Colombia - Part 3
Part III I am awake! It is only 10PM. My eyes are maniacally open wide, alert, ready to climb. Only two hours to wait like this. Eric is awake also. It’s 11PM. I rustle around so much bumping into him occasionally that he can’t sleep...
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74Climbing in Colombia - Part 2
Part II The next morning, we made the pass, through a hole in a stone wall built along the ridge with at least a hundred stick crosses jammed into the rocks by God-grateful travelers. Not wishing to appear ungrateful, we made a few crosses of...
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69How to Know He Loves You (For the Romantic)
Even with obvious signs, often women (and men) are never really "sure" someone loves them. While the following indicators are by no means exhaustive, nor meant to fit all "types" of love, they do offer one "romantic" view. None of these will occur...
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64Dog Crap Poetry
In a previous Hub, If I Were a Younger Man Unmarried, I wrote about Stephen Fry’s "The Ode Less Travelled" and his "dark and dreadful secret" that he writes poetry. And I admitted that I also wrote poetry. However, being an actual poet, likely, is...
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