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

    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.…

  • Cinderkeys Responds

    Cinderkeys’ response to my blog about Nameless and his radio show is under comments. I am open to other commentary. I cannot go through this world looking under rocks or for hidden meanings. However, given that Nameless was in possession of a 60 word summary of my book, its cover, and…

  • Tempus Fugit, Carpe Diem And All That Jazz

    I’ve been called away from this blog by becoming obsessed over editing “Sojourner,” a historical fiction based on the Chinese experience in California, Gum Shan, Mountain of Gold, during the gold rush. I will eventually put up the query I used to hawk the book; I believe it still holds…

  • Mishka

    Mishka, if I recall his name right, was my grandmother Flora’s cousin,  the first man, I ever saw walk with a cane. He was courtly, light-complexioned, and I believe he was a Hebrew teacher. There was the air of the scholar about him. And he wore a hat. It is…