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The Pleasures of Picture Postcards

I recently visited my neighborhood chain drug store to purchase picture postcards to send to friends. I purchased my previous batch there perhaps two years ago. After searching to no avail, I was informed by…

Sorry Soldier

Sitting on his half-folded, inverted entrenching tool, its handle stuck into the mud, Private Jamieson shivered awake as a gust of wind tore the poncho roof away and the water poured down on him.

Tanning + Pot = Disaster

A gym entrepreneur branches out into marijuana. Then loses it all.https://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlouis/the-long-violent-fall-of-tanning-mogul-todd-beckman/Content?oid=29509097&showFullText=true

Scrappy & Me (Part 5)

This time I’m gonna talk about “Scrappy,” who got his nickname because he collected and sold bottles and cans at the camp ground near Lake Pillsbury, and maybe for other reasons, too. I'd see Scrappy…

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