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Book excerpt: Rhythm of a broken heart: The new feminine mystique

September 25, 2026 Cliff Lloyd

My mom was brought up in the 1920’s-1940’s in a very progressive non-traditional household at that time. Nana, Marion Sager, was the founder and president of the Oceanside Free Library.

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Book excerpt: Rhythm of a broken heart: Give peace a chance

September 21, 2026 Cliff Lloyd

I couldn’t sleep last night. My mind is in turmoil. Pressure from the band gigs coming up, preparing for the concert and my conflicted feelings for Sarah and Kathy on my mind

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Book excerpt: Rhythm of a broken heart: LA Woman chapter

September 6, 2026September 27, 2026 Cliff Lloyd

I’ve never had the pleasure of flying in first class, till now. In fact, I’ve never traveled west of the

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Book excerpt: The heart of creation: Chapter 1

July 30, 2026 Cliff Lloyd

The first cells of my future beating heart were formed in the early first hours of 1950. If all goes

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Image by MythologyArt from Pixabay
Excerpts Literature 

Little Renee of Sunshine and the Everkind Tales

January 15, 2026January 12, 2026 Gael J. B. Orr

The Baltimore Post-Examiner is proud to present an excerpt from Little Renee of Sunshine and the Everkind Tales. Written and

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Dennis the Menace costar Joseph Kearns Wurlitzer pipe organ: courtesy Laurie Jacobson
Excerpts Literature 

‘Hey Mr. Wilson! Show Me Your Wurlitzer!’ – The Ghost of Joseph Kearns

October 25, 2025October 26, 2025 Laurie Jacobson

Actor Joseph Kearns (1907-1962) will always be remembered as the easily ruffled Mr. Wilson on the classic television series Dennis

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Imperfect

September 20, 2024September 20, 2024 Katy Motiey

Vida slid her hand across the cool surface of the wooden end table and searched for the box of matches she had left along with a lighter next to the candle the night before. She bit her lip. Was she already getting used to the changes being forced on her—on all Iranians?

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Literature Serial Novels 

Anti-Catholic Chronicles Section B

June 20, 2024June 20, 2024 Michael P. Tremoglie

What began as a dispute about divorce between England’s King Henry VIII and Pope Clement VII mushroomed into a civil war and a long-lasting hatred of Catholics by English Protestants. 

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Spiderweb Alley

June 3, 2024June 3, 2024 Verlyn Flieger

Elverie, noun. obscure. Fairyland, Elfland, the Otherworld of myth and folktale. Often conflated with the Land of the Dead. Dialect

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The Anti-Catholic Chronicles: Chapter I Section A Introduction

June 3, 2024June 20, 2024 Michael P. Tremoglie

It is fitting that a Baltimore newspaper should publish a monograph about anti-Catholicism in America. Maryland was a colony founded for Catholics, and Lord Baltimore, after whom the city was named, was Catholic. Maryland is also the home of the oldest Catholic Church in the original 13 colonies—St. Francis Xavier was founded in 1731 in Compton.

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U.S. National Debt

The current U.S. national debt:
$40,273,024,579,219

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