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  • Self-Observing As A Defense Against Terror — Or Feeling Damn Helpless

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    Matt

    On 7 July I had my second colonoscopy within 8 years. Supposedly I could have waited 10 years; however, the PA and I decided after a few words about the necessity of having it at all, to go ahead since I had initiated the doctor’s visit. I had no symptoms. I was being vigilant. After […]

  • ANNOUNCING A LITBLOG

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    Matt

    I have thought about reviewing specific books on these pages. Quite frankly, it is to encourage a give-and -take between readers or writers and this writer, who has expertise in some areas of the human soul. If you wish to have a book reviewed by me, I will give it the attention it needs. I […]

  • Trains=Holocaust And Other Observations, Railfans

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    Matt

    This blog will twist and turn because I have too much mentation floating about with regard to trains.  Several commentators have observed that the Holocaust is synonymous with the scheduling of trains during the Nazi era. Cattle cars shuffling along track for hundreds of miles and depositing Jews into death camps was a daily fact. […]

  • Fires In The Catalinas

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    Matt

    The fires in the Catalinas are better contained now, no new flareups that I can see. Smoke channels upwards here and there, but not the darkened clouds of a week or so ago. Containment, then break-out, then containment again. People began to be disappointed in the language chosen to convey the situation to Tucsonians. Fire […]