Tag Archives: dreams

Mapping Out My Future

Posted on September 19, 2023 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir Fall and winter of my senior year had turned out just the way I’d planned. But spring took an unexpectedly dark turn. First, our lovably nebbish Choir instructor Mr. Brock developed a bad case of the hiccups. … Continue reading →

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A Fourth-Grader’s Nightmare

Posted on August 23, 2023 by mitchteemley

https://trefology.com/ My Featured Blogger this week is George Raymond of trefology. George has the kind of absurd sense of humor I cut my proverbial teeth on, and you know how sharp proverbial teeth can be (think Monty Python). George sums … Continue reading →

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Destiny Renewed!

Posted on June 10, 2023 by mitchteemley

Image by ThankYouFantasyPictures The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode, click here. To read the entire novel, begin here. Zack and Gina Dore commiserated with one another over the fact that … Continue reading →

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The World According to Carl Jung

Posted on March 30, 2022 by mitchteemley

Artwork by Conor P. MacNeill My Featured Blogger this week is Priston of Quoteliv. I know little about Priston except that he’s in the midst of assembling a marvelously well-curated collection of quotes by history-making people. We may not agree … Continue reading →

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My Recurring Nightmare

Posted on February 8, 2022 by mitchteemley

Me at age 11, plus my altered version (I had a thing for scary movies) My Real Memoir I’m guilty, I know, of giving the impression I led an idyllic childhood. It’s true that I was a proto-storyteller with a … Continue reading →

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Song of My Family

Posted on October 26, 2021 by mitchteemley

My wife and I recently travelled to the village of Westfield, New York, on the edge of Lake Erie, the heart of the America’s oldest wine-producing region. Here, I’d expected to learn more about my ancestors. Instead, after seeing the … Continue reading →

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Eternal Dreams

Posted on August 4, 2021 by mitchteemley

Featured Blogger: Golnaran My featured blogger this week is Golnaran, a wonderfully distinctive artist and sometime poet who I’ve had the pleasure of following since early on (her blog site launched two weeks before mine did in 2014). I’m not … Continue reading →

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Cheddar Cheese and Rock ‘n’ Roll

Posted on November 17, 2020 by mitchteemley

Full Stomach, Fuller Heart (an occasional series) Marc was my first official immigrant friend. Not that he was all that “immigranty” (he was American-born). But his parents, escapees from German-occupied Poland, were wonderfully immigranty. I listened with awe to the … Continue reading →

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Windows

Posted on November 22, 2019 by mitchteemley

Few objects are so suffused with meaning. They’re seldom “just windows.” They are symbols of the past or of the future. Of possibilities, or missed opportunities. They taunt us with freedom. Or separate the unruly world outside from the neat … Continue reading →

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Movies That Have Changed Me

Posted on December 21, 2018 by mitchteemley

Fantasies The release of Mary Poppins Returns triggers my memory, but first things first. One of my earliest movie memories is of The Wizard of Oz, which unless you’ve been living under a stalactite you’ve probably seen multiple times (it’s the … Continue reading →

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