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Category: Memoir

Daddy's nachos

Daddy’s nachos

Posted on November 3, 2024November 3, 2024 by Clay

In the early 1970s—even in San Antonio, where I lived—Mexican restaurants were not yet to be found on every corner or in every…

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Bathtime

Bathtime

Posted on October 28, 2024October 28, 2024 by Clay

At Christmas 1969 my brother received as a gift a black-and-white Sony television. It was small—a cube about a foot on every side—but…

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My day in Haiti

My day in Haiti

Posted on October 4, 2024October 16, 2024 by Clay

In 1976 my grandmother took me on a cruise aboard M/S Starward of the Norwegian Caribbean Lines. The vessel seems a dinghy compared…

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#OTD 1979

#OTD 1979

Posted on November 12, 2023November 12, 2023 by Clay

It was a month after I turned 18 that my mother took me to Las Vegas to see Frank Sinatra. It was November…

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There was that time when...

There was that time when…

Posted on September 8, 2022September 9, 2022 by Clay

…Barbra Streisand asked me to tell her husband she was ready to go. …I noticed Danny De Vito in my living room, and…

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Scarred for life

Scarred for life

Posted on September 5, 2022 by Clay

I’ve heard it said that a scar adds character to a man, perhaps because it implies adventure, danger, a past. I don’t think…

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Two unpleasant Canadians

Two unpleasant Canadians

Posted on September 3, 2022September 3, 2022 by Clay

In 1987, while living in Chicago, I fell in love with Toronto. The first time I visited, my plan was to spend a…

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Just once

Just once

Posted on May 27, 2021January 8, 2022 by Clay

There are certain activities in which a person might, for a variety of reasons, engage one time but in which that person never…

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Mama the Cook

Mama the Cook

Posted on August 1, 2018January 8, 2022 by Clay

Mama was not a very good cook. She was an inspirational schoolteacher, the kind to whom people sent tear-wrinkled letters of gratitude, years after they left her classroom. She pulled…

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Mississippi eatin'

Mississippi eatin’

Posted on November 26, 2017January 8, 2022 by Clay

When I moved to rural Mississippi from downtown Los Angeles, I knew I was in for environmental shifts beyond just the absence of…

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