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This is where you will find short stories, personal essays, and guest posts. Family and friends and the ordinary business of life are the inspiration for this section.
Character
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] You have character. You can be a character. You can create a character, build character or engage in character assassination. There are characters in real life, characters in novels. They can be...
The Art of Empty Spaces
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] On the Paseo de la Reforma, that grand avenue simulating the entrance to an imperial Mexico City that of course no longer exists, there’s a quadrangle of tiny absences, small plazas, where once there...
Monkeying Around: Isak Dinesen, Frida Kahlo, Wislawa Szymborska
[Click on BLUE link for sources and more information] When men by way of their conventions have got themselves into difficulties, then let the monkey in, he will find the unattainable solution. Isak Dinesen, The Monkey I’m old-fashioned and think...
Easter Thoughts
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid. John Maynard Keynes Keynes, the famous economist,...
Art Science Business
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] The business of America is business Calvin Coolidge “We didn’t elect a saint.” I’m so tired of the religious right dragging out this sorry explanation for their unwavering support of our...
Guest Post: The Magic Clock by Mitchell Zucker @ 1990
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] Mitchell Zucker has contributed several stories to Think in the Morning. Here are the links. The Diamond's Sutra The Swan and the Sculptor The Parolee Once Upon A Time In The Pigmy Forest Raven Man...
A Doodle A Day
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information} “You see,” said Thurber sadly, “that’s the way life goes. I write stories with the utmost care, rewriting every one from three to 10 times. I have written so many of them for the New...
What’s With All The Elephant Napkins?
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] I woke up. In the darkness I sensed a presence. I rolled out of bed reluctantly. I went to pee. I made coffee. While drinking my coffee I realized the presence was always with me. A memory....
Why Does “The Bad” Drive Out “The Good”?
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] Have you ever wondered why the date you found on that online dating service wasn’t what you expected? Or why the used car you bought turned out to be an old junker? Or why the stock market crashed...
William Blake Today
For sources and more information click on the BLUE links. You may have noticed that Think in the Morning has not posted since January 21st. Sometimes the mind needs a period of silence to clear. We've been reading and pondering, thinking and resting,...
The Attack of the Fifty Foot Baby
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say,...
Poems – 12
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] This is the twelfth post of poems and napkin art at Think in the Morning. I hope you readers enjoy these as much as we do. The butterscotch pie at Tre Piatti restaurant in Puerto Vallarta is pure...