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Children’s Story: The Day Of Choose Your Own Color
“Good Gracious!” said Millicent. It was what she always said when she was surprised or shocked. “Look at that blue pig.”Her little brother Franco stood beside their mother dressed in his blue shorts and green shirt. He had on his brown shoes. It was a good thing...
Children’s Story: Bebop and Beezie Visit the Land of Manynuts
Bebop and Beezie lived in a tree. They were red apples that grew up together from the time they were tiny buds. You might think it would be fun to grow up in a tree, or maybe you think it would not be fun at all. Whatever you think, Bebop and Beezie had no choice....
Reading in the Time of COVID
solamen miseris socios habuisse doláis (misery loves company) Mephistopheles in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus “There is no way I’m going back to Mexico. I can’t stand to be in a country that is more surrealist than my paintings”. Salvadore Dali At Think in...
Follow The Money
If you don't like this blog, buy my book, it has nothing to do with economics. If you like this blog, buy my book. It will give you some relief from your overworked brain. BUY HERE … it seems that if you have a doctrine, a version of rationalism … that makes it so...
I Know Everything
We just don’t know. It’s a sign of advanced intelligence to be able to say ‘I don’t know’ in the face of uncertainty, my boy. Too many conclusions are drawn on the basis of insufficient evidence. Professor Snipe, Behind The Locked Door There isn’t enough doubt in...
Trouble on the Hill
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. Senator Daniel Patrick MoynihanThere are: no facts, only interpretations. Friedrich Nietzsche What happened to our “shining city upon a hill?” The concept was always a myth but one that held us...
Fire and Ice
Fire and Ice Robert Frost Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I’ve tasted of desireI hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would...
Karson’s Favorite National Park – Yellowstone – A Story by Karson Jones
Karson is 8 years old. He enjoys writing stories. He welcomes your comments Previous stories posted by Karson JonesSome States I Have Visited by Karson JonesKarson’s Favorite Train – The White Pass & Yukon Railway: A Story by Karson JonesThe Best Giant's Catcher...
Bleak America
What I want to see is not a rush to judgment, but a rush to justice. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Don't understand the protests? What you're seeing is people pushed to the edge… fifth risk: the risk a society runs when it falls into the habit of responding to long-term...
The Last Town On Earth: A Recent Novel on the 1918 Pandemic
It is the autumn of 1918 and a world war and an influenza epidemic rage outside the isolated utopian logging community of Commonwealth, Wash. In an eerily familiar climate of fear, rumor and patriotic hysteria, the town enacts a strict quarantine, posting guards at...
Sea Gull Jazz Special: Judy Mayhan Kiyoshi Tokunaga and John Gilmore
In the 1970s and 80s the Sea Gull Cellar Bar was famous for many things and especially the live jazz performances on Thursday nights and Sunday afternoons. Thanks to Judy Mayhan we are able to present three live recordings from those times featuring Judy...
The 1918 Pandemic As Seen By John O’Hara
Think in the Morning continues our look into the literary memories of the 1918 Pandemic. Our first read was Pale Horse, Pale Rider. Katherine Anne Porter gave us an unforgettable memory of the impact of the Spanish flu and the Great War on a young couple whose paths...