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Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome
This might be one of the scariest things I’ve ever done! A new beginning as a website owner/administrator is not [...]
Extra Money
I also have a few leftover Valentine's cards. Now that I look at them, they seem a tad racy for a kid to be selling...maybe [...]
The Return of Hair
Imagine his mortification when the performers assemble on stage completely naked.
David Brin’s Startide Rising
David Brin's "Uplift" universe thrilled me from the start. It had everything: great mysteries, epic scale, very alien aliens, [...]
Birmingham
Birmingham On the evening of April 4, l968 my boyfriend called to tell me he had just heard on the news that Martin Luther [...]
Stranger Danger
In 1979, six-year-old Etan Patz disappeared on his way to his school bus stop in Lower Manhattan.
The Evil Luncheonette
Down there among the warehouses, trucking firms and junk yards that populated the Jersey City side of the Bay was a [...]
Neruda
I read Lorraine Hunt Lieberson’s obituary with great sadness and keen interest. She passed away in 2006, aged 52 from [...]
From Reusing Tin Foil to Recycling Tons of Plastic
I remember my grandparents’ version of recycling, best summed up by the saying “waste not want not.”
The Wheat Field
The Wheat Field My grandparents emigrated from eastern Europe, and my parents lived through a world war – my father [...]
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