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Shortly after I got to Paris I made friends with a young Frenchman named Philippe. He was from a very wealthy French fam...

I was your friendly disaster man. I called myself the Roof Dancer. Usually I was on one of the first planes in after the...

I've always been an opponent of style per se. The bathing suits of 1900 looked silly by 1920. The hairdos of the mid XX...

I spent a year studying painting at the Art Department of the University of New Mexico. The wild west was still tailing ...

6.8 on the Richter scale as Father, my sister and I sat on the floor working a jigsaw -- Mother was in the kitchen maki...

THE GREATFUL DEAD – FARE THEE WELL - July 5th, 2015 (reflections on their final performance) I didn’t attend any of ...

The other day my cousin phoned and in conversation asked if I remember having a trench coat… and I did… it was beige...

Jack and I drove down the night before deep into East Texas to the cabin. We woke to a misty morning in late April fille...

Did he see something pink down there? He was way, way back in the mountains. Where would something pink come from? He ma...

After milking and chores were done and we had trimmed the Christmas tree, mom dressed my sister and I and, with dad, we ...

Square dancing differs from ballroom dancing in that a caller calls the steps that are to be taken. The calling is in rh...


My ancestors are mostly Irish. The color green seems to be associated with Ireland-especially around St. Paddy’s Da...