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Posts published in “Essays”

Sounding Out O.J.

 O.J. hovered over the end of my bed. His white turf shoes were inches above the Astroturf and he’d never return to earth, even if,…

Thais Takeout: The Taste Of Things

The first page of Henry Fothergill Chorley’s three-volume set of Music and Manners in France and Germany: A Series of Travelling Sketches of Art and…

Differences That Shed No Light

Those inspired by my tales of triumph and glory here in North Carolina might consider moving here. Be careful. It’s not inconceivable you’d find a…

The Pray-in at Fort Jackson

Steve Kline was a Sp4 stationed at Fort Jackson when Donna Mickleson and I met him in December 1967. We were transforming a failed Tiki…

The Sandbox

When a friend recently told me she was depressed again I offered some suggestions: Time to get distracted by something fun? Like a funny show…

May Day

In 1969, journalists Andrew Kopkind and James Ridgeway started a Washington-based biweekly newsletter called Mayday. They were soon enjoined by lawyers representing a publication of…

Mark Fidrych, Shooting Star

The harsh gods of baseball have rained heavy blows upon me in recent years by stripping the name and emblem from a Cleveland team I’d…

MSA

MSA is short for “moving stuff around.” MSA goes way back in my family. I’ve been MSA-ing for 50 years because my annual income has…

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