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Gender Study
I wrote a bit of today's post, then I got interrupted by texts from my conservative buddy. Now I am glad. I deleted what I had written. I was on a rampage. Political. Sort of. The sort of thing I...
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Ain't You Had All the Pain You Can Hold
The smart money is on Trump. Nobody thinks prosecutors are going to find twelve jury members who all agree. Such a thing is impossible now. There is no way Trump will be convicted, ever, of...
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Wine Through the Mouth, Love Through the Eyes
It's about to be another fine and sunny day, another fine and sunny weekend. I am going out with the gang tonight to a refurbished bowling alley. I've never been, but it was my suggestion. I want to...
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Can't Go Out on a Friday Night
Oh, fuck. . . I'm paying for my sins this morning. I wasn't even going to go out at one point. I was feeling "down." I was feeling bad enough that I called my mother and told her I wouldn't be over...
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I Went Out on a Friday Night
When I woke up this morning, there was a brand new BMW in my driveway. WTF? Oh. . . yea. I went out on a Friday night. Shit. As I told you yesterday, that was not my intention. A quiet night...
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How Does It Feel?
This is what I missed yesterday. We'll get to that. Black Sheep came over in the morning to get his car. Dressed for tennis. He had scholarships to play in college. He was sipping tea, awake and...
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Do Not Disturb
I didn't leave the house yesterday until dinnertime. I meant to. The day was another one of a now long string of beautiful days. But, as I told my mother later, I seem to have lost gumption. What I...
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Hey, Brother. . . Can You Spare a Dime?
Can you imagine such a thing? Nudity as entertainment? It is quite a concept. That all kind of died when hippies decided to just run around naked for all to see. People went nuts for it, but the...
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All Things Remembered and Lost
Last night was the Full Pink Moon. A Barbie Moon, if you will--or perhaps Ken. Jesus. No wonder I felt like shit all day. I did, and I knew I was nearing death, so I turned down an invitation to...
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Larger than Life
apastreimaginedI think I must have become a mythological creature. I'm just a simple, nice, sweet boy. But the stories and ideas that spring up about me and my life are fairly outrageous. O.K. I'm...
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Emergency
I just sat down to write when I got a call from my mother. She fell again, backwards, and hit her head. I need to go over and sit with her and see if she has a concussion. She probably does. The...
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O.K.
Took my mom to the E.R. They did CT scans and X-Rays and there were no broken bones and no bleeding in the brain, so they released her. I will be hanging around her house to make sure she is O.K....
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You Go to My Head
I'm wiped out. It was a long day. Mom is doing fine for a 92 year old who took a bad fall backwards onto her head. She's as tough as nails. She's got that good hillbilly blood. But I am full of...
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Waiting Around
First off. . . my mother is feeling fine. I sat with her yesterday, made meals, and just generally kept her company. Her neighbors all stopped by to see how she was and to tell me I'm a good son. I...
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On the Spectrum
Should I write a manifesto? It's hard to do in one draft briefly on a Monday morning. Ha! I'll do it anyway. Sit back. Don't get comfortable. First, what is "art"? Oh, boy. . . here we go. It...
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The Great Archivist
This photo of my mother is 91 years old. She is 92. It is the only photo we have of my mother as a child other than in a couple of group pictures. When I was cleaning out the closet that had...
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"I Coulda Been. . . ."
Archiving, as I am now calling it, I found the novel I had begun when I returned from my 'round the country trip after college. When I got back, I was flat broke and moved into my mother's house....
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Peace
And now for the editorial portion of the show. I'll be an "opinionist" for a minute. It's just an opinion, though, and I reserve the right to change my mind. As I've said preciously, that's what...
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Mulching Time Again
All these cameras, and I don't have any new photos to show. Why is that? No matter. I don't. This is an old photo from my trip to Paris years ago. It is a wonderful photo, I think,...
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Let's Put the Kids to Bed and Live a Little
Now you know I'm not a fan of the PG-13/superhero onslaught. One out of every two movies is made for children and the rest are made for morons, or so it would seem to any serious person. But. . . at...
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