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Livin' on Tulsa Time: Celebration...and Down in South Florida: Indictment

Thursday evening was a time for celebration with the Tulsa Runner 20th Anniversary fête at The Cape Brewing Company across the river in Jenks and the…

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Livin' on Tulsa Time: Day 1

Yesterday’s flight to Tulsa was my first since Christmas 2019. At the beginning wariness about the pandemic kept me out of the air. These days it has…

Jun 8 •

Tulsa and a Good Faith Effort to Grapple with History and Divisions That Plague the Country

Judy Woodruff returned to Tulsa, where she was born in 1946, for an episode in her America at the Crossroads series for PBS NewsHour. Her focus is on…

May 26 •

This Running Life

The day began with such promise. It was a lovely morning out here on the left coast when I set out on my Saturday run at 6:30. I spotted a bicyclist…

May 22 •

Jordan Neely's Death Was Tragic, Too Many Responses to It Just Deplorable

A few times a week I check out the National Review website to get a sense of what is raising hackles among the conservative cognoscenti. The magazine…

May 19 •

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A Lesson in Resistance; and, the Authoritarian Threat Today

Politics is a duty, said the Greek poet Alexandros Panagoulis, poetry is a need. Panagoulis was the leader of Greek Resistance and in August 1967 author…

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And Now for Something a Little Different, You Know, Poetry

At their best my little poems may wander out where Emily Brontë’s nature would be leading, awaken something of Wordsworth’s deep power of joy, spark a…

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Republican Negotiation

Plus Justice Alito's litany of grievance, unrest in Russia, and other observations

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The Patterson Affair: Tribalism Run Amok Once Again

Charlie Sykes passed along an account of l’affaire Patterson on Monday in his Morning Shots newsletter (Identity Politics Comes for a Best-Selling…

Apr 27 •

The Vexing Case of Sen. Feinstein

Discussion about whether Senator Dianne Feinstein should step down from the Senate because of health issues that adversely affect her capacity to carry…

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By way of introduction

Welcome to David Matthews Portable Bohemia at Substack. I have been writing about politics and current affairs, books, cinema, the arts, and general…

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Welcome to David Matthews Portable Bohemia

poet, runner, everyday intellectual

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David Matthews Portable Bohemia

David Matthews Portable Bohemia

commentary on politics and current affairs as conscience and honest indignation dictate spiced with adventures of intellect and spirit

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