Remembering Daddy
My dad died this morning. Jim Russell was 94 and, after a diagnosis of prostate cancer a few weeks ago and news that…
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Stan Cornyn and the liner notes
In an earlier installment I made a list of the 10 most influential books in my life. It wasn’t easy to do, writing…
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Chance encounters (Bill Clinton edition)
In yesterday’s news was a story involving a meeting that took place this week between former president Bill Clinton and U.S. Attorney General…
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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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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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Mistaken identity
There are people who are good with names and there are people who are not. I am one of those people who are…
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My dream with Jim Belushi and the cronuts
Last night’s dream has me perplexed but no more than usual; I’m surprised by neither the content of my dreams nor their occurrence…
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The theater and me
What I am about to share is not by way of confession because I am not ashamed of it. It simply is a…
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