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If Only I Had the Cash

I get emails left and right from people ostensibly in the financial ‘industry’ telling me that the markets are in turmoil due to the coronavirus though they use the term COVID-19 because, I presume, that makes them sound more sophisticated. … Continue reading

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Life Goes By Quick: Money Thoughts From A Boomer Retiree With Cancer

(I was given the opportunity to write a guest column for my #1 favorite blog, FinancialSaumari.com. Below is what I wrote along with some comments that really made my day. Do take a look at that website and add your … Continue reading

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Here Kitty Kitty

(Yeah, well, I’ve been lazy about writing stuff, fiction. Call it writer’s block or lack of talent. Or laziness. Heck, call it all three!) What Crosses Your Path. He wished he’d thought more about that black cat when he first … Continue reading

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Another Fish Story

The Trout Went One Way The trout went one way. Foster went another. He leapt out of the water, arching over its surface, and then diving into the depths of the cold pool. For a trout, such a move is … Continue reading

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Man’s Best Friend

Willis stumbled again. He hadn’t seen the slick root of the spruce. Anyway, he had given up trying to avoid them. He grabbed at a wet pine branch, scraping his already raw hand and getting sap on it but managed … Continue reading

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The Servant’s Entrance

Clifford Danforth couldn’t have cared less. There’d been the rumors for a while now; the President would be coming and it was all the town talked about. “Honestly?” asked the headline of an editorial in The Boothbay Register, the town’s … Continue reading

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A Second Childhood

I cut down a Christmas tree. The tree farm was massive for Fairfield County. A hundred acres at least, filled with thousands of trees ranging from small and just planted to massive and requiring a chain saw to chop down … Continue reading

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Ed’s Ego

(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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The Last Bonus of Greenwich Capital

(This is a true story!  I posted it on Linkedin in 2016 and it got several thousand readers, far more than my professional work which is somewhat depressing to say the least.) I sold a chair today. The chair sat … Continue reading

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We Have to Move (Sweet)

(This is the first version, the ‘nice’ about a son visiting his aging father) Phillip turned the car into the gravel driveway comforted by the grassy hump down its middle, the part that car tires hadn’t trampled down. The hump … Continue reading

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