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AFTER PUSH COMES TO SHOVE
#126 - But his senses returned. His own actions and thoughts scared him. He stood there, staring, shaking. What had happened? Who was the crazy one…
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MY DAYS AT HARVARD
#125 - ...so that I could drive the ninety miles to Boston to the campus in Cambridge. It’s just across the Charles River. (”I love that dirty water.”)
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The Shower
#124 - The next space of time didn't register. It could have been seconds, or hours.
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Montana Rancher Ellen Cotton
#16rp - She remarried becoming Ellen Cotton. They accumulated land and cattle. That marriage also failed, but she still stayed.
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Bird In Hand
#123 - It was now down to 3500 acres, a fraction of what it was once. He was losing it piece by piece.
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55 Rides To Cross The Country -pt 2
#15rp - . . . it was clouding up to rain. Which it did just as a young couple picked me up, smiling as they said, “they didn’t want my guitar to get…
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55 Rides To Cross The Country
#14rp - Hold your guitar close . .
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Bella Comes To Caballo Loco
#122 - Jimmy Swann #19 - She came in like a whirlwind, a blast of color on the arid desert with her scarves and skirts catching the uplift in the…
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THE TRAIN TO MARRAKESH
#13rp - You can't get there from here..
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The Boy And The Bird Whistle - On YouTube
#121 - or skating around the kitchen table on roller skates as his mom made him a toasted peanut butter and banana sandwich. An “Elvis sandwich,” he…
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Indians At The Lake At Camp Edgewood
#12rp - I had one job.
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Was An Artist
#120 - . . . then slowly stood up and sauntered away over the rolling meadow into the oaks and was gone. Never looked back.
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ALLIGATORS AND LOST PILOTS WITH JEFF TATE
#11rp - Jeff, leaning well over the bow of the canoe, would reach down and grab it. Ideally, on the neck just behind the head with one hand, and the…
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Down To The Sea
#119 - Swimming underneath and alongside us, called “whale muggings” by old salts, we could have been mugged if they had chosen to.
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Before I Forget . .
Before I Forget . .
My stories. Some I make up.
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