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Ryan F. Love

@rflove.bsky.social

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HS English teacher who does some writing (unpublished histfic novels, some shorts, some poetry), dad. he/him www.ryanflovewriter.com

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 6d

Breathing autumn air, sipping coffee with toast, writing.
Good morning, all

My laptop on my glass patio table next to a white plate with rye toast, with a Ulysses Bloomsday cream colored mug behind it and a bowl of blackberries. A brown fence and still mostly green trees behind.

Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 12d

Finished drafting a novel chapter. One to go, maybe 3,000 more words.
And now, back to grading and report cards.

#writer #teacher

Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 13d

About to watch my wife play the role of a sleazy, criminal aunt, and very excited.
Here's to community theatre.

Program for Kimberly Akimbo, with the title printed in white on an orange creamsickle

Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 16d

Six more essays to grade in this stack.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends.

Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 16d

Dunno if it's online - "'The Theban Plays' by Sophocles" is his title. My edition is 1992 from the boxed hardcover set, but I assume the paperback Volume II Sophocles would have the essay, too. Earlier U of Chicago editions might not, as they didn't include the Grene translations of the whole cycle.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 16d

I've been rereading those, as chance would have it. David Grene's essay introducing his translations is interesting; among other things, he focuses on the parallels between the Creon of Antigone and the Oedipus of Rex, and Sophocles's developing themes over his career.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 18d

I did not recall that instance of the word, but in my defense, Falstaff did not yeet one.

Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 19d

Pizzle!
I don't know that I've ever read or heard that word except for when Arabella threw a pig's at Jude the Obscure.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 24d

It is dress like a teacher day at school.
My child is wearing my tweed.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · 25d

Touched my eye after dicing a jalapeno. How's your Monday going?

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · Sep 23

You post some creepy images, but for me, that one wins.

Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · Sep 23

...could you do it in character as Merily Oberlan, or would that run counter to the camp's mission?

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · Sep 21

I did not finish the chapter, which will be longer than I projected, but I did add 800 words. A productive day.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · Sep 21

Writing on this early autumn morning after a too long layoff. Hoping to dash off the last 700 or so words of this chapter draft before other duties call.
Good morning, all.

My green coffee mug with orange interior filled with coffee next to a French press on a glass patio table. Brown fallen leaves rest inside the brown fence in background

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · Sep 14

Teaching duties are occupying most of my time these days, but I'm still pecking at the novel. Two hundred words here, a hundred there.

#writer

A glass plate with wheat toast centered on a glass patio table, with laptops slanted in the left foreground. A bowl of grapes, French press, and green mug with coffee before a brown fence with green trees in background.

Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · Sep 7

September Sunday walk by the lake. It was a pleasant afternoon.

Morkie Toby in shaded grass with the lake behind, green hills in distance. Big white clouds, blue sky. A dock to left.

Tall brown grass with a couple skeletal trees at right. Blue sky and white clouds. Just a glimpse of Lake behind.

Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · Sep 7

They have not, though behind the scenes they have inspired many words.

Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · Sep 6

Toby cuddles.

Our small fuzzy gray morkie Toby lays on top of me and the gray sheet I'm under.

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Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · Sep 6

My short story, “Baseball Game,” took third place in Oxford Magazine’s Golden Ox contest. 🐂

1960s Dodgers baseball. WW2 Japanese Internment. A father and daughter. It’s all in there. Check it out:

Baseball Game by Evan Morgan Williams – OXFORD MAGAZINE

sites.miamioh.edu

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · Sep 6

Excellent piece. Congrats!

Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · Sep 6

Having been a Western Pennsylvanian teenager in the era of the never-closing Eat n Park, I feel the loss of public spaces at night.

Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · Sep 6

"I Can't Give Everything Away" gets me every time.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · Sep 5

First Friday of the school year.
Beer and writing.
Cheers.

My laptop on my glass patio table next to a glass of beer and a berry monkey sour fruited triple can that is blue. Green trees and brown fence in the background.

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Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · Sep 5

Kate's great in it, but... The Lion in Winter? Bringing Up Baby?
And Juror #8 will always be my Fonda.

Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social · Sep 5

Love it and looking forward to rewatching soon.