OutTakes
by Edd Merritt,
June 3, 2010, page 11.....
It Takes a Village...
- Submitted: Tuesday, June 1st [more ...] |
OutTakes
by Edd Merritt,
May 6, 2010, page 17.....
It’s Sign Language of a Different Sort
- Submitted: Wednesday, May 5th [more ...] |
OutTakes
by Edd Merritt
April 8, 2010, page 6.....
It’s been a “neighborly day in this beauty wood.”
- Submitted: Tuesday, April 6th [more ...] |
Town Meeting Comes Shrink-Wrapped this Year
OutTakes by Edd Merritt, March 11, 2010, page 8.....Stephen Brooks caught me outside Charlotte Central after the morning session at Town Meeting. “Edd,” he said with an inquisitive look on his face, “Was that really a town meeting we were in this morning
- Submitted: Thursday, March 11th [more ...] |
OutTakes
by Edd Merritt
February 11, 2010, page 16.....
The last two weeks have really disturbed my view of America, its culture and the human condition in general. I saw a perturbing movie and read some reports in the paper that were unsettling.
- Submitted: Wednesday, February 10th [more ...] |
Put me in, coach. I’m ready to play
by Edd Merritt
1/14/10, page 15
When I was in college in southern Wisconsin in the early ‘60s, my fraternity was split roughly equally between Green Bay Packer fans and Chicago Bear rooters
- Submitted: Tuesday, January 12th [more ...] |
OutTakes
Others may disagree, but let me bring a slightly different focus to bear on the topic with a few personal experiences from my own post-Vietnam days.
- Submitted: Tuesday, December 1st [more ...] |
OutTakes
Are we a “news” paper?
That’s a question the staff and board of The Charlotte News have been wrestling with recently.
- Submitted: Tuesday, November 3rd [more ...] |
OutTakes
We’re headed for the third and final meeting of the minds among residents and those interested in helping develop a reasonable planning process for East Charlotte village. October 15 will do it.
- Submitted: Friday, October 2nd [more ...] |
OutTakes
tephen Stills wrote “For What It’s Worth” in the mid sixties. I heard it first when I was off the coast of Vietnam and fell for it instantly. Its immediacy was my immediacy. The battle lines being drawn were mine...
- Submitted: Tuesday, September 1st [more ...] |
OutTakes
As we approach the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, we’re hearing a lot of funky nostalgia about the happening.
- Submitted: Tuesday, August 4th [more ...] |
OutTakes
I‘ve been a “word guy” for quite a while, a Ken Nordine “Word Jazz” fan in high school, an English major in college, an advertising copywriter at my first job.
- Submitted: Tuesday, June 30th [more ...] |
OutTakes
In my last column I begged off from matters of the mind to focus, instead, on matters of the senses. A beautiful spring day on the Demeter property had corralled me.
Well, today, it’s raining, and my mind is back languishing in damper stuff.
- Submitted: Tuesday, June 2nd [more ...] |
OutTakes
When I started this column several years ago, I didn’t devote an iota of thought to a title. “OutTake” just jumped from my computer – no questions about what should be, no evaluation of what people might think it meant, no sensible assessment. It just was
- Submitted: Saturday, May 9th [more ...] |
OutTakes
Sports controversy is a hot topic for slow news days. And this spring has been no exception.
- Submitted: Friday, April 3rd [more ...] |
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OK, call me a whiney English major from the 1960s, if you want.
I can hear the MBA’d director now: “Let the nerd have his ten minutes on the stage, then yank him.”
- Submitted: Wednesday, March 4th [more ...] |
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OK, so why go to Ireland for the holidays?
To feel warm and cuddly all wrapped in soft woolens perhaps; maybe to sip spirits while contemplating surroundings carved from aged chunks of Christianity.
- Submitted: Wednesday, February 4th [more ...] |
OutTakes
Ah, Thanksgiving – a time of remembrance, a time to give thanks, but also a time to find your “place.”
- Submitted: Wednesday, December 3rd [more ...] |
OutTakes
“Joe Six Pack,” that clichéed character from somewhere vaguely called “heartland America,” is a brewer’s dream and a teacher’s nightmare.
- Submitted: Wednesday, November 5th [more ...] |
OutTakes
Until now I’ve stayed aloof from writing politics. I figured I’d listen to the candidates and see whether one of them really blew hot or cold before I became a bit more vocal.
That was until “hockey mom” became the descriptor of choice for Mrs. Palin.
- Submitted: Sunday, October 5th [more ...] |
Out Takes by Edd Merritt
Maybe I’d been spending too much time recently with Ken Kesey’s Stamper family, lumberjacks in a novel entitled Sometimes a Great Notion.
- Submitted: Friday, September 5th [more ...] |
Out Takes
I understand there were several discussions around Vermont recently about the state’s movement toward independence.
- Submitted: Wednesday, August 6th [more ...] |
OutTakes
...two days ago “missing my mind” took on a whole new meaning.
- Submitted: Saturday, June 28th [more ...] |
OutTakes
I’ve seldom been one to stand on ceremony. When I see it coming, I often pop the question immediately, “What’s the alternative?”
- Submitted: Wednesday, April 30th [more ...] |
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