Author: John Poplett
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4.83 Million Undecided Voters Bashed by Dante Alighieri
Now in 2024, a nail-biting U.S. Presidential election year, what does Dante Alighieri have to tell us about today’s 4.83 million undecided voters? After the Oct 1st vice-presidential debate, an ABC news journalist, huddling with a tiny sample of the evening’s 39 million viewers, kept circling back to one wishy-washy “undecided”, hoping against hope that…
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En Plein Air: Tommy’s Story
On Atma’s maiden voyage, I parked the van in Santa Margarita, California to survey rock piles upon which artists had scratched, scrawled, and painted pictographs en plein air over 4,000 years ago; I parked the van in southern New Mexico on a lot next to Carlsbad Caverns, found the gaping opening that spiraled down in sweeping circles to the cold pit of…
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Half-naked Man on Campus
Maureen Muldoon texted me a few days before a Voicebox planned evening of storytelling, asking me if I could fill in for a scratched performer. The theme song for the month, appropriately was “September” by Earth, Wind, and Fire. I said yes before knowing what I might possibly contribute. I thought Maureen might bite on…
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The Unsettling Adventure of a Good Times Roller
Maureen Muldoon of Voice Box Stories will invite you to present live on stage at the monthly storytelling series she co-hosts with Cathy Richardson if you can pitch a story molded to the theme of a designated song. If you get the gig and go on to present, Cathy will climb the stage after you…
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The Concept of Freedom
The two dominant political parties in the United States of America, the Republican and Democratic parties, keep pushing reproductive rights in front of the public eye. It is the lever and the fulcrum that keeps the nation pried into two miserable, dysfunctional halves, an “either/or”1Kierkegaard, Søren, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong, and Søren Kierkegaard.…