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| On Family Reading, monthly column from Julie Douglas |
| Month after month, my colleague Julie Douglas, comes up with another marvelous list of books to read with a child. Her July installment is all about the good effects of family laughter. Have a ball with these! Humor in Children's Books |
| A Conference for Missouri Non-Profits |
| The first ever statewide conference for Missouri nonprofit organizations is to be held in Jefferson City on November 8 and 9 this fall and is titled, "Strengthening the Voice of Missouri's Nonprofit Sector." It is being planned by a Committee of 30 nonprofit and philanthropic leaders from throughout the state. The conference will feature top notch national speakers and topics of interest to the smaller, local nonprofit organizations as well as the larger ones. We have a flyer on the conference: PDF version flyer |
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| A New Look for Missouri Passages |
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| Paul Simon and the Gershwin Prize |
| Songwriters: when I carry their lyrics around with me I feel as if I've grown up with them. The other night I saw a broadcast of a gala concert honoring Paul Simon. He won the first ever Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The Library of Congress will award this prize to recognize a lifetime contribution to popular music that exemplifies the standard set by George Gershwin. The concert brought back a lot of memories, good ones and great ones. I wanted to write a little note about Paul Simon's lyrics. It's in my June 29th blog entry at CreatingInterest.blogspot.com |
| Long Sentences in Novels About Dictators |
| July 4th is a day to celebrate the break of the American nation from monarchy; the beginning of an "empire of Liberty." By coincidence, my reading time lately was an immersion in Latin American fiction. My June 25 blog has a piece about the device of the run-on sentence in two excellent books.
Most of us were schooled to banish run-on sentences from our narratives, I can't write one without a feeling of extreme transgression, so instead I like to extend sentences sometimes as if surfing a long, beautiful wave, a thing I have never done, but one can always imagine the daring and musculature others were blessed with.
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