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My calling
I see one of my jobs in life as making check-out people at supermarkets laugh.
Sep 11
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Write what you know
I was watching Merle Haggard on YouTube perform his song, “Sing Me Back Home.” The idea of writing a song about a man being led to the gas chamber is…
Sep 4
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August 2025
Boy flying alone
This is a black-and-white memory.
Aug 28
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The old man and the pool
I just turned 80.
Aug 21
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Magellan and the voyage to the land of pancakes
As a child, I started going out into the world.
Aug 14
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The wrens take wing
My wife’s bicycle hangs from our porch ceiling and has been as long as I’ve been living here.
Aug 7
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July 2025
I become an influencer
This is a post is from a long time ago. Quite a few of you have joined since then. I believe you might enjoy this. There are laughs.
Jul 31
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Angie
Angie Alexander owned a clothing store in Virginia Beach, Virginia, the resort town on the Atlantic Ocean where I grew up in the 1960s.
Jul 24
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Flight
“I remember when we had a big scavenger hunt in Dayton when I was a teenager,” my mother said to me once.
Jul 17
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Zaphra
A friend wrote to me that Zaphra Reskakis died recently.
Jul 10
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43 bis villa d'Alésia
The year is 1972.
Jul 4
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June 2025
Money
I can’t write a single post about the complexities of money.
Jun 28
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