CORMULLEY

LETTERS

Letters to the editor and various organizations.

Rita Cormulley aka Ash, passed away in my arms, Friday, April 12th 2019


I maintain this site as a memorial to my love of 25 years.

She wrote many letters with pen and paper. When we met in 1994 Ash was not interested in computers.

I finally convinced her to start writing in a word processor and eventually post her writings online.

The Chinese Connection

ash would like to observe: Remember how relatively minor stories with no universal implications dominated news and talking head programs before the grave,...

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Spin Me

This one certainly was written in real time. Sadly, the outcome set more hideous events in motion:

More partisan than impeachment, dirtier...

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No Fate Worse Than Death

The following is the complete text of ash’s essay published by the State Journal-Register on Saturday, January 18, 2003.  Since the article was...

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Thanks, Mom, for reading to me

ash doesn’t remember whether the local paper published this essay, though it probably didn’t.  She did eventually read the article she mentions...
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Mindreader

Whatever ash is responding to is long gone from her files. But the gist of the original message should be readily apparent from her retort. Note the controlled...

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Souching Toward Dictatorship

If sarcasm is an effective literary device, and it can be, so is pretending to take sarcasm at face value. Labels are all right, but no substitute for...
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