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Courage is Driving a Car
What is a superhero? People often think of superheroes as larger-than-life figures who have powers beyond imagination, ...
A Ghost Story
In early November of 2014, I visited Prague with a friend of mine whose parents were born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and lived through Wo...
DROUGHT AND BUZZARDS
It was July of 1955. Williamson County was suffering from the worst drought in history - Everything looked like a desert. The North and Sout...
Charlotte and the Back Steps
ca 1936 The child was in the yard with her dog, spotty, when she saw the man approach the front gate. She knew that was her cue to hurry in...
The Night the City Went Black
It was a mild evening for the ninth of November as I started my return trip from East New York to Queens. I had just finished the forty-five...
TELEPHONE “EUNICE”
In 1928, when I was 4 years old, we moved from one farmhouse to another only 3 miles away. This new home was in a Town Limit, thusly, we had...
That Lucky Old Son
CLOSED FOR THE SUMMER, read the marquee over the local movie theater. Just two weeks before in late July, I remember going with my friends t...
Travel Kenya
In 1986 I returned to Kenya where I’d lived and traveled before. It had always been a magic place. Nairobi was just a city like many other...
Travel Amazon
Life is not measured in the number of breaths we take, but the number of moments that take your breath away. The Amazon was one that did it ...
Street Sounds
When I was a kid we lived on a dead end street in Brooklyn – one could stand at the foot of the street and survey the NY skyline and the S...
