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Four Women & One Bird Shit
I recall watching the Mike Nichols 1971 film Carnal Knowledge in or around 1980 at the Showcase Cinema, a repertory theater in Sacramento that is now a parking lot. I remember wondering if I would ever see the kind of action the principal actors were getting. Up to that moment, I was quite the loser Read more
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Tom’s Hook and My Short Arms: A Six Sentence Story
Tom was a soft-spoken, friendly IT analyst, and I would deliver mail and intra-agency communiques to him many times a week way back in the Nineties. Another thing about Tom is that he has a prosthesis on his right forearm. One cold morning, while walking to my favorite coffee shop, my over-sized down parka on, Read more
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Rattle & Grunt: A Six Sentence Story
The last appointment Richard had with his previous primary physician was to talk about the results of his bone scan, but when the doctor looked at Richard’s charts, he noticed he hadn’t had a physical in over a year the next thing Richard knew he was bent over the examination table receiving a prostate exam. Read more
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Duck Hunting & “Reverse Chemistry”
In my teenage years, my father, brother, and I were briefly into pheasant hunting. My father and brother loved fishing. I mostly came along to skip rocks until they told me to stop–I was scaring off the trout. But one year (some time in my high school years), my father bought some Remington 12-gauge shotguns, Read more
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The Book I Keep Returning to More Than Any Other
On average, every year or so, I read (actually listen to the audiobook version of) Miguel Ruiz’s 1997’s classic The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom. I am sure that the fact that it is in audio format has something to do with my returning to the book so often, and Peter Coyote, Read more
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Motorists: Beware the Trailer Hitch!
Growing up, my family was very active in various outdoor motoring activities. My father built custom boats (check out this old post for more about that), boating, dirt bike racing, trail riding, and running around Jeep trails in a dune buggy. All of these required towing these vehicles, which also needed a large, half-ton truck Read more
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