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The Idle American by Don Newbury

Spinning tops flung long ago finally stopped, they were like the season’s final flailing of turkeys soon to be main courses on Thanksgiving tables.For some journalists, however, minds continue to spin – conjuring, probing, marveling and expressing – thoughts about life, sometimes exceeding sublime or falling short of ridiculous.Such is the mind of my friend Glenn Dromgoole, a talented wordsmith who fell into the swirling word pool, splashing about in it for some halfcentury.Glenn’s latest book, Just Happy to be Here, has 247 pages of words written “to encourage, enlighten, entertain,” and they do. The reading evokes both tears and ...

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