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  • ...an earlier version of this was a "twenty-minute fiction" assignment in a writing group. It was rewritten and almost became one of the short pieces - what a friend called the "Greek Chorus" parts - of The Drool Room -…

  • 50 years ago today Sputnik began the "Space Age" - that got me thinking about "my first satellite"... lights in the sky sólás There were twenty or thirty of us up on the hill in the cemetery, heavy wool coats pulle…

  • I wrote this for a young friend three years ago, transporting a bit of personal experience to a place he would know... I re-run it today because, crazy, busy, behind, but want to stay in touch... Staying Out of Trou…

  • another slight re-write... but slowly things are getting done, and I can get back to new words again... The Sea cois farraige Sitting on the beach at Enniscrone, a few of us on towels, most just on the chill, damp s…

  • a murderous week for me - work-wise - a rerun until I can get fully to the other side... The Weight Dropping out of the window as the Long Tower chimes three and clambering down the drainpipe I move slowly and…

  • barbara wrote about walls today, and then I thought of this... the border an teorainn We are walking the ridge the long way, crossing the field of tall grasses. It rained this morning, pouring down from a deep g…

  • old pieces, ones that I am not at all sure about, but somehow important to me... Rapid Transit luas timing His watch didn't work. Well, it worked, but randomly, and offered him facts meaningless, …

  • I have a thousand things that need to be done in the next few days... I will be around if I can. In the meantime hears a re-write of an old piece, in response to a memory from Doug Riddiger... History stair Wh…

  • stumbling around, I found royr9444 whose answer to angi1972's challenge got me thinking, and then I reached OwenHiggins thoughts on complaining, and I did not want anyone to imagine that I grew up in a place that was any…

  • Written on a bitter summer night a few years ago... don't know why it re-surfaces now, but it does... (my presentation on ending school-as-we-know-it went very well this morning, just wish it was politicians instead of t…

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