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Living Dangerously
Old York Rd., approaching Abington Hospital (photo by the author) [Published 10 July 2018 in the Broad Street Review and reprinted here with permission.] Abington Hospital’s emergency entrance is...
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Let me entertain you
The Männerchor singing “Ein Prosit” with Don Bitterlich, Jackie, Greg Luzinski at the Phillies. (Credit: Martina Smith. In the photo, from left, Don Bitterlich, Peter Hermann, Jim Herman, Mark...
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To Allow for the Curvature of the Earth
[First published in Broad Street Review, 23 Dec 2018. Reprinted by permission.] Bob Beamon soars in 1968. (Image courtesy of the Dutch National Archives, via Wikimedia Commons.) Sports, sports numbers,...
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Moving Scenes
[Published 26 Feb 2019 in the Broad Street Review and reprinted here by permission.] A new neighbor (photo: K.S.) Scene 1 The only way I was leaving this house was feet-first. Jackie didn’t like that...
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Three Things I Learned from Wagner
[First published in the Broad Street Review, 14 April 2020. Reprinted by permission.] Das Rheingold at the Met. (Photo by Ken Howard/Met Opera.) When we began staying home to combat the pandemic, the...
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What I’ve Learned from Pop Lyric Settings
The Commodores (Photo by Carl Lender, via Wikimedia Commons) [First published in the Broad Street Review 19 Oct 2020 and reprinted here by permission.] Since I set a lot of words to a lot of music,...
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What I’ve Learned from Classical Lyric Settings
[First published in Broad Street Review 21 Dec 2020 and reprinted here by permission.] Mac Sledge giving advice. About the best advice for composers I’ve heard comes from Mac Sledge, Robert Duvall’s...
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The House Wren
A photo of a common bird gives flight to thoughts on technology and gratitude. [First published in the Broad Street Review 19 Jul 2022 as “A walk in the woods, with the wrens, makes me wonder: if...
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Driving to Kyiv
[First published in the Broad Street Review 1 Nov 2022 as “One man, his van, and 18 hours: Journey to an orphanage in Kyiv” and reprinted here by permission.] The Russians, invading Ukraine at the end...
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Bedstraw
First published in the Broad Street Review 27 Nov 2023, and reprinted here by permission. It’s been a good year for bedstraw. Its narrow leaves radiate out in evenly spaced fans along its vine;...
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