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Colin Fleming

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Op-eds

Literature writings

Sports writings

Beatles writings

New York Daily News

Easter every day

Chicago Tribune

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Easter Egg

New York Daily News

How love really works

Cape Cod Times

Bill Belichick and the truth about greatness

Time

Always believing in Santa Claus

Chicago Tribune

On the inspirational earnestness of Peppermint Patty

New York Daily News

Confessions of a Thanksgiving misfit

San Francisco Chronicle

A perfectly haunting radio show for Halloween

Cape Cod Times

Tim Wakefield, knuckleballs, life

Dallas Morning News

The essential realness of Hank Williams' art on his centennial

New York Daily News

An author's annual Fourth of July ritual in Concord

New York Daily News

The real meaning of prayer

New York Post

A celebration of the still-living, 101-year-old Francoise Gilot, a remarkable woman, writer, and painter whom Pablo Picasso treated terribly

Cape Cod Times

Discovered as having ran well after the fact: a piece from August 2022 about David Ortiz's finest moment on a ballfield

New York Post

Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey and falling in love with Golden Age mysteries

New York Post

Take a New Year's Eve lesson from the Beatles in Hamburg

New York Daily News

Roberto Clemente: The ultimate teammate in the real-life sense

New York Daily News

Pulling a Peanuts for Charles Schulz's centennial

New York Daily News

Not privileging monarchy

New York Daily News

Journeying with Judy Garland for her 100th birthday

New York Daily News

Why music is bigger than any notion of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

New York Post

Charles Mingus' walk in an age of talk on the occasion of his centennial

New York Daily News

Giving up the drink for St. Patrick's Day

The Wall Street Journal

Sam Cooke's kind of blues

The Wall Street Journal

Life lessons from the Beatles' 1970 film, Let It Be

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