Hey! Let’s Go Bowling!
Everything in this story is true. Though I happily left my small, provincial hometown decades ago, I do keep up with my old friends who remain there, and occasionally go …
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With Love From Me to You
A postcard from underground
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A Long Slow Season
Recovery in a vacuum
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Ramble On
Meditations on the one that got away
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From Spiked Beer to Champagne
The enduring charm of Lawrence Welk
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 …
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Vacation! All I Ever Wanted
The story of my happiest happy place
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 …
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Acid Test ’89
An unexpected trip into the beyond within
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 …
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The Loud Sucking of Adulthood
Birth and death of a salesman
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 …
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White Knuckle Express
Some trips are trippier than others
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 …
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Bacharach to Basics
The King of Pop Sophistication is dead — long live the King!
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 …
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