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MICRO MEMOIR II: LEAVING TOWN CHRISTMAS PARTY

April 20, 2024 by

Leaving town used to be easy, if I remember right. Pack a bag, get in a car, hop on bus, and leave. “I’ll be there in a few days.” Same story going out to Brooklyn as leaving:

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FART AROUND LIKE KURT VONNEGUT, IT’S GOOD FOR YOU

August 4, 2023 by

Fart around like you mean it: Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope: “Oh, she says, well, you’re not a poor man. “You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?“ And so I pretend not to hear her.

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OREGON BLUES ON A FATHER / SON DAY

July 2, 2023 by

Oregon blues are a different blues. I blame the clouds. But no clouds on Waterfront Blues Festival Saturday, which is why I wore a rash-guard hoodie instead of layers of sunscreen. It was a no cloud Saturday awash in family time:

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FEARFUL LIFE SOLUTIONS?

February 2, 2023 by

A fearful life is riding a NYC subway at night in the Seventies. This is what my ride looked like. I took the train from Brooklyn, up Manhattan, and over to Queens. It seemed like scary ride at night. Why the fear?

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COLLEGE DANCE IN HIGH SCHOOL, 1972

November 28, 2022 by

A college dance had a special allure to high school kids. We were high school homers in 1972; the college was Southwestern Oregon Community College, or: SWOCC. The campus was in Coos Bay, Oregon, a city of mystery and sawdust. I’d never been to a college dance, but I was a high school junior and […]

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LOVE LIFE WITH NO LOVE IN SIGHT?

July 26, 2022 by

A love life for rising generations comes with so many choices. And questions. With so many alternatives, some guys just give up. Then what?

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GYM LADIES AT REST? NO, THEY NEVER REST

April 5, 2020 by

Do gym ladies miss the gym more than gym guys? They probably don’t miss gym guys as much as gym guys miss them. Taking a shot here. Why is that?

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REAL THIRD PLACE LIVING SPACE

May 7, 2019 by

For a brief time I was an athlete with potential. I’d learned how to not get pinned in wrestling, how to lose by decision, how to win by decision, and finally how to stall to victory. It’s the last one people like referees didn’t understand. They hated it, told me to stay on the mat, […]

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BABY BOOMER ALERT: YOU’RE OLD AND YOU CAN’T HIDE IT ANYMORE

February 3, 2019 by

A question for readers in the baby boomer demographic: when did you realize you can’t hide your age? Was it when you first made a skin tent on the back of your hand? The first dark spot that looked just like the one you remember on your grandma’s arm? When you noticed something going on […]

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SAUCEBOX MILLENNIALS ON BROADWAY

March 15, 2016 by

Nothing good happens after midnight? Even for Saucebox Millennials? Go out with a group of millennials you’ve known since birth, kindergarten, or grade school, and you’ll see something familiar. They party like baby boomers in their twenties. They drink drinks and talk and carry on like barflies. There might be one among them who needs […]

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