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  • Swimming in the System

    About nine years ago I experienced a panic attack for the first time in my life. It is an odd feeling, as if the world is enclosing and wrapping you in a straight jacket but not in a claustrophobic sense. It is as everything you see or feel creates an unsettling pressure,…

  • 5:08 A.M.

    It has been one of those days in my life in which a sense of mortality looms large or at least the awareness, yes, the abiding awareness, of a painful degrading of one’s integument years ahead. Diagnosed with a spinal lower back problem which has caused me terrific pain down the length…

  • Storming the Bastille

    I didn’t want to expend any energy writing about the writing “conference” I attended led by a freelance writer whose mind and approach to life was as narrow as a parrot’s ass. The day was to be composed of three workshops all dealing with the writing, publishing and marketing of a…

  • On a Streak

    Another wonderful review by Kate Dubinski for Uncustomary Book Review:  http://www.uncustomarybookreview.com/2012/07/this-mobius-strip-of-ifs/ Like a Moth to a Flame This book was sent to me by the author, via the Uncustomary Book Review. I was so pumped because it was the first time I was asked to review a particular book. I…