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My Feet and My Phone
I've got some fight left in me
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Numbskull 4
“It’ll all be okay,” my wife promises, loving me, loving me, loving me.
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Frontiers of Fright book drop
And, Happy Halloween!
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Rewiring My Brain
Neuro-programming, toe yoga, kindness, and how reality comes from the barrel of a gun
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Ground Zero
Wounds heal. We lay flowers on gravesites. Memories fade, faces grow distant.
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I Shook Dick Nixon's Hand
Sixty years of stories about Tricky Dick
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A Personal History of Shea Stadium, part eleven
The hole in the heart of New York City; I stumble into the end of a wake; Family exerts its pull from thousands of miles away; The Pushmepullu of loss…
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The Last Schlunk
Richard Nixon, the late great Donald Kaul, old-school mechanical voting machines, and voting against Trump one last time
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