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Vintage: Letters, Time Warps, and Typewriters
I confess to having made no effort to improve my handwriting since first learning to use a pen in the third grade. During the mid ’60s in the elementary school I attended, several classrooms consisted of combined grades. Mine was a 3rd…
Inches
When you are a writer by action if not by trade, you continually write. Sometimes you only write in your mind, but if you are lucky you will find yourself near a keyboard or pad and pen when a story…
Experience: Final installment for Wind and Water
I count myself among the few lucky enough to have experienced piloting an aircraft above 70,000 Feet (close to 15 miles above the earth’s surface). The U-2 Dragon Lady is the only operational air breathing aircraft currently capable of reaching…
Squatter
Some years ago I was flipping through the channels in a corporate housing unit somewhere and I stumbled on to this popular cop type show. I do not remember its name, but it was the best of a bad situation…
Experience: More of Wind and Water
Anyone who’s ever studied the art of navigation is familiar with the name, Bowditch. Years ago, one of my three sons was intrigued by numbers (and still is). When he was ten years old, he read a book titled, Carry…
Spice Spice Spice How About Some Actual FOOD?
I waited until the following morning before writing this. I was livid when I walked back from Rock Bottom last night. Being someone who travels a lot I end up eating out way more than anyone should. Perhaps it is…
Experience: Wind and Water
I was 13 years old when I started surfing. In those days, I was too young to drive and only made it out to the beach when I could beg a ride from one of my sister’s boyfriends or convince my…