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Betwixt and In Between (Free verse) by dougsoderstrom

There was a time in my life, When I was betwixt and in between, So............ confused as I was, I decided to do nothing, And that has made all the difference. Doug Soderstrom, Ph. D. December 27, 2004

dougsoderstrom

30-Dec-04/2:53 PM

Dear Zodiac:

As you reqested, here are the answers to your fine questions.

1. I earned my doctorate at Utah State University in Logan, Utah in 1976. My Ph.D. dissertation is entitled: Religious Orientation and Meaning in Life, and it is 234 pages long.

2. Christian Humanism.

3. I don't know. I guess I simply have an inability to do so, that is I have an inability to feel so crippingly ashamed.

4. You are absolutely correct as no one can know how life would have been if they had somehow chosen differently.

5. Perhaps not...... but I'll check back and see.

6. Yes, call the Library at Utah State University and ask them if it can be made available to you.

7. No, I am not gay..... as I am 100% heterosexual. Not that this provesthe point, but I am and have been married for the past 38 1/2 years and have a son who is 30 years old.

7A. Yes I do........ It means (without cheating and looking the definition up in the dictionary) I believe....... the fact of something "being everywhere" as, for example, the smell of a perfume could ubiquitously fill a room with its scent.

8. Each Ph.D. is likely to do their own thing..... these things , I would suppose are my things, things I have personally chosen to do.

8A. I, as yet, have no website of my own.

9. I have chosen not to blender my own arm, but you may blender your arm if you would like to. However, I would suggest that it would not be a good idea to do so.

10. I suppose that others (even though they do not have a Ph.D. degree) simply have more talent writing poetry than I do. But that is fine because, I believe that I am doing the best that I can.... and it does not bother me if other's do not like my poetry.

10. Even though, as I indicated earlier, I am not "colosally gay" I am sure that it must seem "just plain sad" to you that I keep coming back to poemranker ...... even though there is little doubt that each and everyone of my poetry writing efforts will be, as you say, "trumped."

I sincerely hope that these responses will live up to what you expected of me in the sense of respecting the right to have each and every one of your questions answered in a reasonable manner.

The best to you, and I sincerely hope that you are having a very nice Christmas and New Year's Holiday.

Your friend in the name of love and peace,

Doug

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