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FrancisPage: Don't Be Lonely
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007. Do you see marriage in your future? A friend asked not long ago. No," I said, my mind wandering through the muck of uncertainty. "But maybe my mission in life doesn't involve marriage. I don't want to rush things.". That was only half the truth. The other half: I'm not even dating. I haven't dated since college, and the one relationship I had dissolved in the pain of the past. From my journal of December 3, 1993:. Have you ever kissed anybody before? Not like that," I replie...
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FrancisPage: It All Comes Down To This
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015. It All Comes Down To This. In the third and final part of Lady Darley's letter, she talks about the future and expands upon a tawdry revelation about an acquaintance. In your mind, not in front of me, raise your hand if somebody belittled you and called you jealous because you decided your sex life wasn't for public entertainment. Remember when Lady Darley said she wouldn't ask about my Raytown friend anymore, the one who introduced her to me? It seems neither of us can let go.
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FrancisPage: A Disruption In Time And Space, Friends And Place
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015. A Disruption In Time And Space, Friends And Place. Advisory: this letter and some of my recollections based on on it contain slightly mature content. I know that it took you about six months to actually reply to my letter - but I thought I'd reply reasonably soon anyway. Christmas - well, yes - I like it really because I just love being around relations and little children. I know that sounds really bad but it's just a fact. I guess my sister is real [bleep]. My life is studying...
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FrancisPage: Those Optimistic Puritans
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009. My Dearest Readers, this is adapted from a presentation I recently gave to the Casas Adobes Optimist Club in Puritan attire. As we sit down to the table of gratitude once more, I feel compelled to clear the air surrounding a much-maligned group commonly associated with this day. In truth, we're more like them than we will admit. So now that we've cleared that up, let us return to the main question. Why do Puritans have such a bad reputation? Puritans had their radical elemen...
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FrancisPage: Going Deeper
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Monday, June 29, 2015. Lady Darley devotes a lot of this letter to relationships - not just hers, but mine. I told her how my brother and I ended up working at the same place. That summer: Six Flags Over Mid-America. I guess it would be pretty uneasy for you having your brother working at the same place. Don't you get on well with him? My sister and I get on well at times, but I think it stems from when we were little and lived somewhere there wasn't many other children and we had to play together? Now t...
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FrancisPage: A Quick Look As Her Ladyship Waits
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Thursday, June 25, 2015. A Quick Look As Her Ladyship Waits. Lady Darley's next letter was actually a single card, dated April 14, 1992. She pined for information that I didn't have. This is just a quick look at a note from me if you know what I mean. Is college going ok? How did you go on with [your Raytown friend]? Her Address Is: [Redacted]. Raytown, MO 64138. Tel No: 816- [Redacted]. How did my holiday go? I kept telling them they should speak to more people, but would they? It doesn't really take mu...
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FrancisPage: The Great Escape?
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Friday, June 26, 2015. Just after the calendar rolls over to 1994, a letter to close out the previous year arrives from Lady Darley. Judging what she says about college, it may be a year she's glad to leave behind. My composition class which also sucked time with journaling assignments, not the freewheeling freewrites I used to do in high school, but semi-serious analytical pieces. I had a finicky teacher. But somehow, I earned her respect. How has your Christmas been? Did you get my Christmas card?
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FrancisPage: July 2015
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Sunday, July 12, 2015. Reel To Reel: Inside Out. Worth full price admission. Voices of: Amy Poehler, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Bill Hader, Phyllis Smith, Diane Lane, Kyle MacLachlan, Kaitlyn Dias. Nothing objectionable, but this is a film designed for older children due to its subject matter and demonstrated emotional intensity. Like I said with Wall-E. Links to this post. Tags: Reel To Reel. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Dec 14, 1971. News Producer, KOLD/KMSB-TV. Raytown, MO (Kansas City). Tucson Friends...
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FrancisPage: December 2014
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Saturday, December 20, 2014. Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Moviegoer. Reel To Reel: Exodus: Gods And Kings. Christian Bale, Aaron Paul, Sigourney Weaver, Joel Edgerton, Indira Varma, Ben Kingsley. Battle violence and plagues of Biblical proportions. Now let's talk about Exodus: Gods And Kings. You probably know the rest, or you should. At least the plagues are epic: CGI-enhanced storms, yucky skin lesions, and attacks of locusts, flies, frogs and crocodiles. Crocodiles? I noted that film ...
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FrancisPage: Reel To Reel: WALL-E
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Saturday, August 9, 2008. Reel To Reel: WALL-E. An inconvenient truth for kids - and adults. How It Rates: * *1/2. Voices of: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, Macintalk. Unless you're one of those wingnuts who can't stand any form of ecological message in your films). But Pixar has the one thing they've never captured: a universal appeal to both kids and adults. WALL-E. One day, a probe lands in the middle of this trash-heap Earth, deploying an egg-shaped droid named EVA. She's go...