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- A. M. Rosenthal (NY Times Managing Editor & columnist)
- actors and acting
- advice a la Dear Abby
- aesthetics
- Alan W. Smith (Roger W. Smith's father)
- Aldrich Ames (convicted spy)
- Anglo Saxon poetry
- astronomy
- audio books
- autobiographical – Roger W. Smith
- Balzac
- baseball
- book collecting
- book reviews by Roger W. Smith
- books (considered as such)
- books – the physical book
- Cambridge, MA
- Canton High School, Canton, MA
- Canton, MA
- Carl Nielsen (Danish composer)
- Charles Dickens
- children's and young adult books
- cinema
- cities; urban living; urban policies and planning
- college (my courses & professors)
- correspondence of Roger W. Smith
- creativity; thought
- criminal "justice"
- diaries of sons' early years kept by Roger W. Smith
- discourse
- Лев Николаевич Толстой
- Питирим Александрович Сорокинn
- editorial work (both done personally by me and as practiced in journalism and publishing)
- Elinor Handy Smith (Roger W. Smith's mother)
- English (the language)
- epistolary (letter writing as a genre; letters as examples of good writing)
- essays (by Roger W. Smith)
- ethics
- etiquette, personal conduct
- family history (includes content that is broader in scope than just genealogy)
- foreign language papers by Roger Smith
- foreign language study
- García Lorca
- genealogy
- general interest
- George Gissing (Victorian novelist)
- grammar (thoughts of a grammar purist and ex-proofreader)
- Harry Stack Sullivan
- health care and medicine (considered generally)
- Henry Miller
- Herman Melville
- Hiroshige, Utagawa – landscape prints
- historiography
- James Boswell
- Jonathan Swift
- journalism by Roger W. Smith
- journalism critiqued as such (and as specimens of writing)
- journalism school papers by Roger Smith
- Juan Ramón Jiménez (Spanish poet)
- language (vocabulary, usage); language in the abstract as it pertains to writing
- letters to editor by Roger W. Smith
- Liberal Religious Youth (LRY) / Student Religious Liberals (SRL)
- literature
- Michel de Montaigne
- miscellaneous writings (not by Roger Smith)
- music (from the point of view of a listener)
- musings (random daily thoughts)
- my books
- my city and neighborhood
- my dogs
- my family
- my favorite art
- my favorite books
- my favorite films
- my favorite music
- my favorite places
- my favorite poems
- my friends
- my reading; observations on reading
- my recent ancestors (granparents, great-grandparents, etc.)
- my travels
- nutrition
- obituaries and eulogies
- obscenity
- Old Norse Poetry
- parenting
- personal health and exercise
- personal psychology (Roger W. Smith observations re)
- personal reminiscences of Roger W. Smith
- personal views of Roger W. Smith
- personal writings of Roger W. Smith
- philology
- photographic
- Pierre de Ronsard (16th century French poet)
- Pitirim A. Sorokin (sociologist & social philosopher)
- plagiarism
- political correctness (PC)
- politics
- public morality
- publications (bibliography) of Roger W. Smith
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- reading and readers
- reference book articles by Roger W. Smith
- relationships (general comments re)
- religion
- Samuel Johnson
- Scholastic Search magazine – articles by Roger W. Smith
- self-help
- Shakespeare
- Sherwood Anderson
- social engineering
- Theodore Dreiser
- Thomas Wolfe
- Thoreau
- Tolstoy
- tributes (written by Roger W. Smith)
- Walt Whitman
- whaling (19th century accounts of)
- William Blake
- work and the working life
- writers considered not in depth, but as exemplars (for good or bad) of the craft
- writing (the craft of writing; good vs. bad writing; my training, experience, and lessons re same)
- writing as it relates to my blog posts and readers' sensitivities
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- A. M. Rosenthal (NY Times Managing Editor & columnist)
- Alan Smith
- Alan W. Smith
- Alan W. Smith (Roger W. Smith's father)
- Alan Wright Smith
- Annie C. Hart
- Annie Congdon Hart
- Annie Handy
- Bill Dalzell
- Caleb Congdon
- Canton High School, Canton, MA
- Carl Nielsen
- Charles Dickens
- Charles Pierre
- Donald J. Trump
- Donald Trump
- Edvard Grieg
- Edward Marshall Hart
- Elinor C. Handy
- Elinor Congdon Handy
- Elinor H. Smith
- Elinor Handy
- Elinor Handy Smith
- Elinor Handy Smith (Roger W. Smith's mother)
- Elinor Smith
- Elizabeth F. Hewins
- Elizabeth Frances Hewins
- Esther Whittredge
- George C. Smith
- George Caldwell Smith
- George Colwell Smith
- George Gissing
- George Orwell
- George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Harold Aspiz
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry Miller
- Henry T. Handy
- Henry Thomas Handy
- Jane Gilchrist
- Jane Gilchrist Smith
- John C. Hart
- John Coffee
- John Congdon Hart
- John M. Coffee
- Juan Ramón Jiménez (Spanish poet)
- Liberal Religious Youth
- Lionel Shriver
- Louisa May Alcott
- Louisa May Alcott Work: A Story of Experience
- LRY
- Lydia Congdon
- Michel de Montaigne
- New York Times
- P. A. Sorokin
- Pitirim A. Sorokin
- Pitirim Sorokin
- Ralph Colp Jr.
- Ralph E. Handy
- Ralph Ellis Handy
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Robert Tighe
- Robert W. Tighe
- Roger Smith
- Roger W. Smith
- Samuel Johnson
- T. Gordon Smith
- Theodore Dreiser
- Thomas Gordon Smith
- Walt Whitman
- William Blake
- William Handy
- William S. Dalzell
- William Sage Dalzell
- Питири́м Алекса́ндрович Соро́кин
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