To most adults who I interact with, I am “very young.” But for some reason, I feel like I’ve already lived a thousand lifetimes. I…
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One doesn't run across references to streptococcus bacteria in news accounts of the 1870s very often. Nevertheless, in a July, 1878 edition of the Russian…
Part 2: The Inquisition Now the dies were cast — I was out of the station and forever labeled a white supremacist/misogynist. There was of…
If there is one thing that sticks in the collective conservative craw (and I assure you there are many and various such indigestibles on their…
We had blackout curtains on the window of our elementary school. They were supposed to protect us from the burns of the flash when the…
I have rats, which I suppose is another way of saying that I have a place for rats to be, a fact for which I…
Historians undertake to date a building's construction and sometimes they turn to the common brick used in it. Believe it or not we’ve had history…
How did I get into this? As a kid that was the inevitable question of concert day. I still ask it now and again. One…
Part 1: The Descent “Oh boy, you’ve really done it this time”, I thought to myself as I walked down the darkened hallway to the…
This is for all the former Marine Corps “grunts” who might have served at Camp Las Pulgas, Camp Pendleton, California, the gruesome high dry desert…
People sometimes ask me if I remember the 1906 Earthquake. Not only do I remember the Big One, but, Hell, I brought it on! After…