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A few days ago I tried a recommended daily exercise for would-be writers. Write 1000 words a day. This is the unedited exercise. Title added later. Stream of Consciousness When we walked down the well-worn path from the edge of town headed for deep in the woods, we had no idea. How many times had we done…
Only a few of us share memories of 1934. The depression made poverty even more miserable than usual. Michigan had its record high and low temperatures in the same year. And, oh! There was pertussis. You probably know that as “whooping cough”, not pleasant for most; but for a three-year old boy, the cause of…
You may be relieved to know that the amount of money we received in the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act is not really the 2.2 Trillion we thought. $900 Billion was the pandemic portion of the bill according to the Associated Press analysis. But what about the rest of the money. Where did…
If graphic allusions to medical procedures tend to upset you or your stomach, stop reading now. Since I had recently written about a few unfunny comic superheroes in a piece called EGAD, Mary said she would not be surprised If I wrote about Vascular Man. Yes, I will explain. Whether called an Oncological Dermatologist or…
If you had asked, I would have told you that I didn’t read comic books when I was young. I would have been wrong. Recently, after a long day of doing not much, I decided to watch JOKER on the Covid-active lower-level television. As you probably know the seriously dark movie is based on the…
Fifty years ago, son Jim and I were being taught by a catamaran what happens when the sail points down instead of up. To save you the time and trouble, I will tell you. It has a tendency to stay down until the Coast Guard comes. There is much more to this story that I…
Life is Not Fair. And boy is that lucky for me. It’s easy to say you are successful because you work harder, plan better and are wiser than others. It might be more difficult if you didn’t have the physical and social advantages provided you by the fickle fortunes of fate. Once upon a time…
Now that I have your attention, I’ll tell you the real story of Mary Weaver, Pill Pusher. A few months ago, I announced that I was no long confident in my ability to keep track of the multiple medicines, prescribed, withdrawn, modified ad infinitum. Somewhere on the way to earning her Doctor of Jurisprudence degree,…
A few months ago, it happened for the first time. A woman whom I admire said simply to me, “You certainly are spry…” Now I ask you, what is the rest of that sentence? A few days later a person I did not know made the pointed comment, “You certainly are spry…” Now I must…
For reasons unclear to me, I just remembered seeing an otherwise singularly forgettable Broadway show. You need to know I was a 20-year-old soldier with a Top Secret clearance awaiting a slow boat to France in 1952. The New Jersey barracks was full of pinochle players, not a bridge player in sight. Besides New York…