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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.
Tis The Season
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] It’s a great time for drunks and gluttons. Just a few weeks after gorging on roast turkey, oyster stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole (with cream of mushroom soup and crispy...
Udder Nonsense
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] If you have read any of the posts on this site, you must be aware that Napkin Art adds an interesting historical and artistic dimension and adds immensely to the delight factor, if any is to be...
Poems – 11
This is the eleventh poetry page posted on Think in the Morning. We choose poems we like based only on our own tastes. Each poem is paired with an original piece of napkin art produced at the Sea Gull Cellar Bar in Mendocino, CA from 1977 - 1985. We identify...
Guest Post: The Diamond’s Sutra by Mitchell Zucker
Go to sleep. First tell me the story about how the world ended. All right; get under the covers. One day, the Launch Control Officer at an intercontinental ballistic missile base had a dinner date and had just finished polishing his boots and was about to...
Short Fiction: Horace Cucumber: A Cautionary Story For Parents With Unruly Children
Though you hurry away, it’s a brief delay: three scattered handfuls of earth will free you. Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) * Horace Cucumber rolled down the steep garden path of John Winthrop’s hillside garden ripping off pieces of his green...
The Greatest Heist in History
[Click on BLUE links for sources and further information] Better views of some of the charts and some of the analysis used in this post can be found HERE: Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts America can be divided into five income classes: the...
Shy Red
[Click on BLUE links for sources or more information] In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach,...
Keeping the Peace During the Holidays
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information.] “The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.” Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part One “You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family,...
Loving Animals in Their Proper Place
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] There is at least one thing I agree on with Donald Trump: “Donald was not a dog fan.” As a Godless liberal and unrepentant elitist, I have no plans (nor does Donald) to add a pet to my family in...
Imagination and Reason in the Time of Tragedy: Lao Tzu, Voltaire, Blake, Camus, and Marquez
[Click on BLUE link for sources and further information] “It is certainly the day of judgment,” said Candide. [Candide, or The Optimist by Voltaire] Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau William Blake Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau;...
Taking A Break
It has been a year and a half since I created Think in the Morning. I have put up over 150 posts. Many of the posts have been nostalgic memories of the Sea Gull Restaurant and Bar in Mendocino during the time I was the owner/operator. Other posts include...
Poems – 10
This is our tenth page of poems and art. Think in the Morning posts a poem and a piece of napkin art produced in the old Sea Gull Cellar Bar every day on our Facebook Page. Autumn Song Sarojini Naidu Like a joy on the heart of a sorrow, The...