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Billy Boyle
https://www.obrienfuneralhome.com/memorials/william-boyle/5065953/index.php One day you’re here, the next, you’re gone. I’m grief-stricken, numb with alternating currents of nervous anxiety and loss. My brother died a few days ago, and the shockwave continues for all of us. The darkness of November comes, with midterm elections, a lunar eclipse, and a full moon all leading up to Billy’s…
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Billion Air
Powerball tops 1.5 B….kabillions so sure, I will buy a Quick Pick since I play the lottery once a week and meekly ask to win the SuperLotto, the state lottery which is considerably less, though topping $20 million this week. And therein lies the rub… The rub is I’m poverty stricken like most Americans and…
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State of the Union
Today, I promise to work on my novel, a never ending tale I started in 1979, a pivotal year for me. And I have worked on this story over the years, as well as others, so it will see the light of day, but the truth is I made a pact with myself to NOT…
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Writing Not Writing
Have alot in mind, and realized most of my waking life revolves around writing or not writing. whenever I wrote, I would get wings and fly…and when I didn’t or couldn’t or was ” blocked,” then I sunk into a morose existence of making ends meet, or not, and frustration would conk me on the…
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Embrace the Apocalypse
One of my New Year’s Resolution is to ETA and forget the previous paradigm for survival. What our parents thought, believed, and lived, was late stage capitalism, and now, well there is chaos occurring on a global scale. Earthlings have endured several apocolypto events since the dawn of man, so this revolution is not unexpected,…
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The Bo Show
I inherited a dog from my brother last year since he was unable to care for him and had to find a place to live. The dog, named Bo or Beau, was a 6 year old rescue coonhound and is the size of a small pony. He drools, he spews drool, he sheds, he bites,…
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forgot what I was gonna say
ihad the perfect little anecdote from my dream but instead capturing it upon wakening, i had coffee, took the dog out, lamented the 40 degree weather in Palm Springs, though my dog finally stopped shedding, and how succinctly I would write this essay. Too bad I can’t remember what it was about. Human foible, perhaps,…
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Life After Madonna
Celebrities….We don’t know why they are famous, they just are. Once and future pop princess Madonna makes headlines with more nudity and risque photos on Instagram and shen she gets mocked, she fires back that “I’m Madonna and you’re not ” sort of iconoclasm. The rumor in the 80s and as reported by the Media…