The rappel tower
(Warning: Contains coarse language.) Heights have never bothered me very much. As a child, whenever my family would visit tourist attractions involving high…
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Roadside discomfort
The worst roadside restroom I ever visited was in northwest Indiana. It was 1989 and a friend and I were on a late-night…
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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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My book is out!
Months in the making, OVERHEARD in LA…and elsewhere is real! It lives! Buy a copy or three (it makes a great gift and…
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The train from Barcelona
On the train back to Fitou from Barcelona yesterday there was a French couple sitting in front of me with their baby. Robert…
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The chicken dream
(Caution: contains coarse language.) I just woke up from a dream. It was New Year’s Eve and I was in a grocery store…
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The dream with Diane Arbus and the commercial kitchen
I so wish I had time to study dreams full time – my dreams, anyway. Doubtless, other people have interesting dreams but mine…
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The Burbank airport dream
I’m on the tarmac at Burbank airport, watching a commercial being made. I notice a small fire on the edge of a wooden…
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Further adventures in dreamland
Picture an old department store, a store with a central atrium onto which every floor opens. Marshall Field’s in Chicago and Galeries Lafayette…
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No appeal (Part 2)
Recently I enumerated some activities in which I don’t care to engage. I indicated at the time that that list was by no…
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