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When I was a kid studying Judo in New York City, all the toughs thought Judo was for wussies. It was a sport, not a real martial art like Karate. Inevitably, street corner punks with nothing more to do engaged in arguments concerning who would win in a fight between a karate guy and a …
Well, let's see? Like out of a movie? cinematic moments. Naw, I never had any of those. But wait...My friends from the Grove Street crash pad we called the Folkie Palace swore that when the movie Animal House came out, they had stolen entire scenes from our parties and us. But they guessed that they …
There is a deluge outside this morning, so without taxing myself or my faithful supervising dog, Max ( who insisted that wet dog fur was smelly), we are presenting this photo of an elderberry blossom not quite ready to bloom. It was taken just down from the tiny knoll that is above the tiny pond …
There I was by the side of the road. The book in my hand was open and my gaze went between the page and the plant in front of me. My posture was bent over the plant. I heard the police car pull up, but carefully made note of the page with a book marker …
Unlimited budget for twenty-four hours? Well, let's see, I'm too old for fast women and cars. I have all the tools I'll ever need. Of course! I'll stir up the already turbid waters of politics! With the midterms coming, it's an opportune time to do what the billionaires do and buy, buy, buy! Politicians for …
The TV habit was hard to maintain on the road before cell phones, tablets, and laptops. The final episode of Lost In Outer Space was watched in front of an old tube TV in Baltimore. I was babysitting for my friends while they were out. The Robinsons were still stuck in outer space, and even …
Despite my tenure in hip communities in both Greenwich Village and the back side of Boston's Beacon Hill, my drug culture participation was pretty limited. Even in that brief period of time when I purported to be a "stone head," I was largely "clean", it was a pose. In fact, it turned out that I …
Origins and origin stories are important. They act as baselines for where you came from, where you went, and have ongoing implications on your directions going forward ( I almost wrote direction home). I've dissected my origins on the blog regularly. But there are inflection points in most stories that seem more important than others. …
Yes, I do frequently hijack a prompt to twist and spindle it towards my goal of the moment. But this morning I was browsing some posts by other bloggers and found that one, Piper's Adventures ( Debbie Pierce), had written a particularly lovely piece dedicated to a friend who had just passed. I really wanted …
Yes, we all use cliches, sayings, and little tired parables whose coating of meaning has worn off with constant use. But just try to go a day without using one. I mean, thinking of one you use regularly is as easy as pie, and some even offer cheap thrills! Okay, it's the last one that …
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