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Ed’s Ego

Posted on November 28, 2018 by admin

(I wrote this last year and did a rare thing; shared it with my old friend Luis Curutchet, my muse in may ways, who liked it.  He wanted to know more about Ed and maybe I’ll come up with a … Continue reading →

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Island Hopping

Posted on April 15, 2022 by admin

Geoffrey Lewis looked south where the clouds had gone greyer and lower. Nothing. He listened for the helicopter. Maybe with weather coming in, they’d take the big aluminum boat with the warm cuddy cabin. But all he heard were waves … Continue reading →

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A Virtual Life

Posted on April 6, 2022 by admin

We all have regrets. Coulda, woulda, shoulda…fill in the blank. It drives some people into insanity. Or into therapy. Or worse. Coulda, woulda, shoulda. Shoulda is the worst of the trio. I should have done this, but I did that … Continue reading →

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Hold That Head High

Posted on January 4, 2022 by admin

(I read recently that decapitated heads do things for a few moments, movements, probably a function of nerves as opposed to consciousness after execution. Right? Well, there have been studies saying that there is some awareness, which is totally gross … Continue reading →

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Gallows Hill #1 Site Report

Posted on June 25, 2021 by admin

(I have no illusion that anyone will read this report, but I wanted to put it up anyway. It’s my BIG term report for a class I took. I got an A. The professor asked for 12-15 pages; I ended … Continue reading →

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Return of the Blob

Posted on February 24, 2021 by admin

The film had only just started when the blob filled the screen, blackening the panoramic shot of the upper Amazon, the foothills of the Andes in the distance, cinematography that demonstrated why the film won an Oscar for it. The … Continue reading →

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Trays

Posted on January 25, 2021 by admin

It was the witching hour at The Willows, the hour when the lights went down and voices settled into whispers before stopping entirely. A handful of the devout sat in the library, all looking toward a bookshelf, which was covered … Continue reading →

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A Hiking Trip

Posted on June 3, 2020 by admin

Hiking alone? At 4,000-something feet? In October?  Honestly?  Stupid, stupid and stupider.   Insight comes at the wrong time, Frank thought, and it hit him that that was insight itself.  He managed to laugh a little, and imagined a smile on … Continue reading →

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Man, I mean Woman, up!

Posted on March 6, 2020 by admin

The front page of the March 6 edition of The New York Times contains a ‘news analysis’ entitled “A Two-Man Race? Women Aren’t Surprised.” The essence of this isn’t a surprise either coming from the NYT; “It’s a situation that … Continue reading →

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$4 million! Really?

Posted on February 13, 2020 by admin

In my recent guest column (https://www.financialsamurai.com/life-goes-by-quick-money-thoughts-from-a-retiree-with-cancer/) I threw up, almost literally, a figure of $4 million as the amount needed to retire and then went on to apologize for doing so. Such a figure might seem about right for an … Continue reading →

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