A friend from the Navy (Part 1)
(Caution: contains coarse language) The story has been in the works too long, partly because it’s important to me and I wanted to…
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At a fish restaurant
There is a restaurant in Paris that I like very much. Truth be told, there are a dozen or more restaurants in Paris…
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Remembering a special Good Friday
Three years ago I was living in Fitou in France during a period of decompression and introspection. The preceding autumn had been just…
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Dining alone
During one summer in the 80s I had a week’s vacation from my job selling shoes at Marshall Field’s, and after considering places…
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My issue with soup and spaghetti
I never liked soup, and in my thirties I made it my mission to find out why. What was it about soup? What…
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When we moved to San Antonio
Hollywood Park, our neighborhood, lay about 12 miles from downtown on the extreme northern edge of the city. Hollywood Park in 1970 was…
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The first time I visited Toronto
I was 25 when I took my first vacation by myself. I lived in Chicago at the time and thought it would be…
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