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May You Live In Interesting Times….an editorial…

The old Chinese curse (yes, it was a curse), seems to have taken root in the modern day with the election

27 Jun

He sat on the end of the bench, not even bothering to take his helmet off. The bench was not steel,

30 Apr

I’ve been searching for George Washington. Not in the conventional way

29 Apr

“Yeah, of course I remember those days,” he said. “I was young and full of piss and vinegar. I thought I could conquer the

05 Feb

Trepidation was coursing through my body As I approached the front door. The spinning barber pole corkscrewed its way upward,

28 Dec

The colors are what struck me when I looked into the stands, As a million multicolor dots on a pointillist painting. There

10 Dec

I don’t think I’ve heard the word fascism thrown around as much as I have recently. It has been applied to both

18 Nov

The clinical term for non use of muscle and the accompanying decay of said muscle is atrophy. To be precise the definition is

13 Oct

I don’t know how they fell or how they lived But I can’t help noticing they are there. I wonder, as I contemplate the markers

14 Sep

A historic vote, no question. Great Britain voted on 6.23.2016 to leave the European Union. As this blog

15 Jul