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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- “a Six Sentence Café & Bistro Six …cont’d”

September 3, 2026 By clarkscottroger 17 Comments

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise, constrained by a sentence limit (high and low) of six, there are worse ways to spend the remaining time you have on earth.

Prompt word:

FIRE

“la Raconteuse.”

The tall, thin man approached the red-headed writer; his manner formal bordering on deferential, his smile, however, was that of a friend who had been there for the highs and the lows endemic to life.

Remaining seated, Chris returned the smile.

“We will keep the light on and the hearth-fire in my Office burning, against your return,” the Proprietor added the slightest of bows.

Rising she embraced the Manager, libretto to her heart-felt gesture, “Formality is a style you wear well, mine is more…this!”

From the bar area, Mimi and Denise and the Gatekeeper added their approval in shared laughter.

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- “… meanwhile, our Adventurers in Chicago are…”

September 2, 2026 By clarkscottroger 20 Comments

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Hosted by Denise, constrained by a sentence limit (high and low) of six, there are worse ways to spend the remaining time you have on earth.

Previously, in our tale…

Prompt word:

FIRE

There are worse ways to come out of a blackout than to the sound of Anya Clarieaux’s voice.

“If one of you idiots even think of saying, ‘Where am I?’ You will regret it.’

Ok, but it’s a painfully short list.

We were no longer in the restaurant high above the Chicago night; we were, nevertheless, seated around a large round table and by ‘we’ I mean: Rosetta Storme, (her boyfriend) the Sophomore, an Order of Lilith nun by the name of Sister Aclima and a short, stout, Darby O’Gill impersonator and, of course, our host, Anya Claireaux.

I reached for my phone to call the cops or the fire department or Lou, only to realize that I was attached/tied-to/restrained in my chair; couldn’t wait to hear our host’s response to that.

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Wentdnesdag -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 2, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Heading into Wakefield today.

yes, the Wakefield.

damn! way late.

sure, I’ll take photos of Wakefield

RePrint

(We know what you’re thinking… but, wait! no! this is different! this is a post from September 2 in 2015 and…and it fell on a Wednesday!! Hey, it’d be a crime not to use this post.)

-the Wakefield Doctrine- Wednesday and such

September 2, 2015

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Just a quick, jot-down-a-list of things to pick up at the Cumberland Farms and/or other semi-important things to do on a busy day Post today.

Speaking of Lists! Did you know that the concept of ‘a List’ are three very different things to a clark, to a scott and to a roger? Well, they are! (Want to thank Cynthia and zoe for their Comments re: Cynthia’s reference to Dale Carnegie and is famous self-help book, ‘How to Win friends and Influence People’.) The point being, that something as simple at that book will manifest differently for a person, depending on their predominant worldview. (‘manifest’ is the term we use in this context), because we want to be sure that we remember that we’re not talking about:

‘how a person interprets the book’, or

‘what a person gets out of reading the book’ and we’re so not saying,

‘whether are not the person understands what Dale is trying to say’.

Nope! To say that this Book ‘manifests…’, is to say that it’s an actual ‘different thing’ and, …especially and! (the concepts it presents) are different things, depending on the reader’s personality type.

Speaking of fun and challenging, zoe (Update!! Denise) has this week’s Six Sentence Story prompt up already! So, if you’re like me, you’ll want to go over there and see what the word is so that you can start the struggle early! (I’m just kidding. not. There are some astoundingly skilled and talented people who join in each week and they produce stories that’ll have you saying, ‘how the hell do they do that?’ and they make it look easy. For example, take Dyanne (please! barum bump!) she has the gift of the Six Sentence Stories and they are quite good, as are all the others…. Why don’cha stop by and send in a Story!

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

September 1, 2026 By clarkscottroger 4 Comments

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

The most non-confrontational day of the week.

Hey! There’s a topic!

Confrontation:from Medieval Latin confrontare “assign limits to; adjoin,” and confrontari “be contiguous to,”

Well, who said “That Wakefield Doctrine! Those principles are like so inclined to write illustration of themselfs.”

(cue: the Everything Rule)

What might we learn examining the concept of confrontation as manifested by the three predominant worldviews of the Doctrine?

clarks (the Outsider) no way, nope. won’t do it. go ahead you can have the (football, boyfriend, bicycle, girlfriend-to-be*) …except when it becomes a matter of something important.¹ (lol to the facetious examples of contested possessions)
scotts (the Predator) Hey I thought you’d never ask! lets dance… hurry up before someone able to wreck my fun comes by
rogers (the Herd Members) First, you asked for this. Second (wait, let me do a quick Herd assessment… ok, given your status, I think we have the necessary quorum)

There you have it. The social dynamics of confrontation as manifested in the three predominant worldviews.

Note: rogers only engage in active (one-on-one) aggression when assured of a sufficient size Herd. Fun Fact: when confronting a clark who just happened into the situation, a roger can ‘assemble’ a Herd from whatever bystanders or ‘trying-to-get-to-class’ random people available at the moment. If the clark has some standing, then more planning and logistical effort is required.

* applies to male clarks only, clarklike female very not so much

1) sorry, no quick description handy. if you’re a clark reading this, you know what we mean. (and woe betide the scott or roger who tries to mess with ‘it’.)

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Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 31, 2026 By clarkscottroger 6 Comments

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

While we try to remember the (suggested) topic for the week’s first post, lets rummage through the Box ‘o RePrints, shall we?

…wait! stop the keyboard! we have a little video from our own Golden Years of video/audio Doctrine/Curator!

the heck with adieus

ok, a little backstory: for a few years, at the end of the First Decade of the Second Millennium, we had cause to travel on business, once (or twice) a year. For reasons, lost in the Fog of Bore, we decided that, on each trip, rather than fly directly home, we would do some clarklike* tourism at places that held an attraction (for us). One such trip included a drive through Mississippi to see the Crossroads of Robert Johnson fame.

here:

* so, for a clark, tourism is about what, as kids, we used to call ‘touching hands’** Point of Interest, drive there, get out of car, take photos or videos, get back in car and leave.

** i.e. scary old house, ideally with keep out signs all over the place, the dare was ‘touch hands’ which was not ‘go on the property or get there it’ rather it involved touching it (running away was permitted and encouraged afterwards)