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When I was growing up every family had a radio and most cars and trucks had radios but kids didn’t own anything that could be plugged in. Most houses had one electrical socket in each bedroom and that was it. If a kid was lucky he might have a lamp, but as far [...]
For those of you looking for some sort of intellectual pursuit in a movie, go away, and go away now. This is “The Avengers” and it was based on a comic book and a cast of characters created by Stan Lee. For those of us old enough to remember when comic books were [...]
My marriage lasted 989 days. I can come up with at least a dozen reasons for the failure and those would include financialincompatibility, a breakdown of trust, different visions of thefuture, and the fact that I’m pretty much a solitary creature. Way down on the list, well, actually totally off the list, is [...]
A dog is who you train him to be. Some breeds are easier to train for some tasks, that is true, but the temperament of a dog will be determined by how your train that animal, how you treat that animal, and how that animal was treated as a puppy. You cannot chain [...]
Have you ever had a song get connected to an event or even a person? It’s like a sort of musical melding, an instant soundtrack or an emotional association that lasts forever. Back in the late seventies I was with a girl I had always wanted to go out with, we had just [...]
Connecticut just became the seventeenth state to abolish the Death Penalty, but as I understand it there are two men they want dead first. Those two men may or may not be executed, but many people inside the legal system have given up on trying to beat the appeal process and tossed inthe [...]
Let’s say you are a two hundred pound man in reasonable health and under the age of thirty, but over the age of twenty. Another man in a bar walks up to you and tells you he’s going to kill you. You haven’t any military training and don’t have a weapon, but this [...]
I’ve started many more works of fiction that I have finished and sometimes you just have to know when to say when. If it isn’t working them just shelve it for a while and then come back to it later, right? Also, I’m all in for weird coincidences. Now, the last time we [...]
The story captivated Georgia. A Pizza Delivery guy sees a young woman, naked, in handcuffs and gagged, lying behind a sofa. She motions to him to call 911 and after he leaves, a desperate call for help goes out. The police arrived and arrest the monster, save the woman, and the pizza guy [...]
I am not a people person. I am not a child person. For me, the logic in having children totally escaped me, and it still does. I do know people whose lives are magical and joyful because they have kids, but I also know people whose lives are magical and joyful because they [...]
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