In my last two letters I may have been a bit off-putting to some readers. I want to apologize. That's not who I really am. I suffer from severe mental illness…
Posts published in November 2023
Is it time to confess environmental crimes against nature? I had decided to expand my pot patch into a new area in the back forty,…
The warden of one of the world’s largest and most overcrowded penitentiaries might reasonably be expected to be a burly, hard-spoken disciplinarian, packing a gun…
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It was fitting that Rafael Puyana, the Colombian harpsichordist who died ten years ago in Paris at the age of eighty-one, should have made his…
“Alright then,” announced Mr. Bumpers. “It’s decided. We’ll open the house to those less fortunate, like homeless-type people guests, right? All in?” Nods of agreement…
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The word “melena” can be spelled and pronounced in two ways with profoundly different meanings. With the accent on the second syllable and an “i”…