Networking Socially

As all who know me well are aware, I’m awkward in society, deficient in small talk, and negligent about keeping contact with friends and family. I believe that for some years at least some of my friends and relatives were sure that I had died — but I was just in Texas. Letters, telephone calls, [...]

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Critique

Tell me what you think, he said, eyes eager, expectant, testing friendship and risking self. He took two folded slips of paper from his wallet and handed them to me. Two scrawled poems, short, unidentified I like them, they’re very nice, I said, not knowing how to respond, then paused, reading again the papers in [...]

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