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With Love From Me to You
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A Long Slow Season
Author’s Note: Life on Wheels is an ongoing series of memoir entries centered on the many cars, trucks, vans, motorcycles and other vehicles I have owned over the years — …
Ramble On
There is a meme going around social media these days, shared chiefly among late Boomers and Gen Xers, featuring the image above, and bearing the legend: DON’T TELL ME ABOUT …
From Spiked Beer to Champagne
Everything in this story is true. The turmoil of my childhood home life is well documented elsewhere on this site, and readers of my other memoir chapters have good reason …
Vacation! All I Ever Wanted
Everything in this story really happened. Names and minor identifying factors have been changed for the usual reasons. “Hey, man,” said Sid Garrison, his thin face breaking into a wide …
Acid Test ’89
This really happened. Names, details of some events and some identifying factors have been changed for the usual reasons. Despite my dismal grades and worse attitude, I was allowed in …
The Loud Sucking of Adulthood
This really happened. Names and minor identifying factors have been changed for the usual reasons. The autumn of 1991 found me kind of spinning in the aether. It was clear …
White Knuckle Express
Burt Freeman Bacharach, a towering figure of American song, has passed at the age of 94. What can be said of the man that hasn’t already been codified in legend …
Bacharach to Basics
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