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This is where you will find short stories, personal essays, and guest posts. Family and friends and the ordinary business of life are the inspiration for this section.
Less is More
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information} Minimalism has been a fascination since the beginning of time, the simple life as an anecdote to the hunger for wealth and fame. Jennifer Michael Hecht tells a story about the great cynic Diogenes that...
The Goldilocks Life
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy. Maria Edgeworth, Harry and Lucy Concluded What is “just right” when it comes to “how to live”? Sarah...
Volver (To Return)
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Back in Oaxaca. A ghost. The mother in the quirky movie Volver (To Return) or is it the other way around, Juan Preciado in Pedro Páramo? I’ve left something undone. No idea what that might be but I’ll...
Are You Ready For Some Football?
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] I still remember when the only man I ever called Coach, Gregg LeMaster, arrived in my hometown to coach football at the local high school. I remember vividly because my older brother, Errol, interviewed...
Short Fiction: The Genesis of The Rabbit
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] At first I was just a few random lines on a white background, a doodle actually. Not really random, no. I could sense two eyes looking down. I could feel the tug of the pen. Something, I had no idea...
Road Tripping Toward World Peace: Part II – for Anthony Bourdain
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Lesley Stahl: Have you seen the really bad schools? Maybe try to figure out what they're doing? Betsy DeVos: I have not-- I have not-- I have not intentionally visited schools that are underperforming.Lesley Stahl:...
Road Tripping To World Peace: Interlude II — Alexander von Humboldt
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Traveler, your footprints by Antonio Machado Translators Mary G. Berg and Dennis Maloney Traveler, your footprints are the only road, nothing else. Traveler, there is no road; you make your own...
Karson’s Favorite Train – The White Pass & Yukon Railway: A Story by Karson Jones
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Karson Jones is 6 years old. This is his second story on Think in the Morning I first found out about the White Pass & Yukon Railway in a Mighty Machines video that you can watch at the link...
Road Tripping Toward World Peace: Interlude I
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Railway Travel. A journey in a railway train makes me sentimental. If I enter the compartment a robust-minded, cheerful youth, fresh and whistling from a walk by the sea, yet, as soon as I am settled down in one...
Road Tripping Toward World Peace: Part I—for Anthony Bourdain
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11GYvfYjyV0 Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know...
Guest Post: Short Fiction – “F” by Mitchell Zucker
[Mitchell Zucker has several short stories on this site. This one is a Think In The Morning favorite.] Dr. Richard Mann, in a suit and tie, carrying an attaché case, pushes his way through the five o’clock Madison Avenue rush, followed by his cameraman...
Summertime
It has been said that bad things come in threes. It’s an old wives tale thoroughly debunked by the mathematician John Allen Paulos, but you’ll never get the conspiracy theorists to disbelieve it especially in the current political atmosphere. I can...