Category: Entertain
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Between the Heat and the Bugs
First Place, Non-Fiction, Gulf Coast Writers Association 2024 Contest Attend the GCWA meeting September 21, at 10 a.m., EDT, via Zoom to hear me—and other finalists—read our award-winning entries. Click here on September 20 for Zoom link. Rather than slam the front door, I huff away from it, hoping that an evening walk will clear…
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Oops
Come to think of it,bad decisions often make the best stories. In the bohemian days of the mid-1970s, when establishment folks sought disestablishment refuge from establishment storms, I traveled frequently to the backwoods of Maine. There, in tiny towns north of Farmington, friends lived off the land and off the grid in modest manufactured homes,…
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Lughnasadh—The Festival
Part 2 of 2 Warrior, King, Craftsman, God—Lugh is so big that explaining his festival, Lughnasadh (pronounced Loo-NAS-ah), which occurs on August 1, needs two parts. Last month, we delved into the god’s background in “Lugh is Huge”; this month, the rituals and customs associated with his celebration. History, Traditions, Rituals Although not as recognizable…
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Wrong Lift
Getting to where you need to go can be confusing. Stepping into the elevator’s gilded geometry, I shifted my shopping bags to select the third floor. But that was not an option. This one went to floors 11–15. The hotel had three banks of elevators—low-, medium-, and high-rise—and this car did not go to the…
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Listening to Strength
Come to think of it, uncommon strength is often born under duress. Somewhere on Generals Highway, above the breath-defying switchbacks that rise more than 2,000 feet into Sequoia National Park from Hospital Rock, and beyond the intersection of Big Trees Trail and Little Deer Creek, I was overwhelmed by the massive dignity of a singular…
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Resurrection
Come to think of it, we’ve all stolen something. Sometimes, it finds a new life. Come on. Admit it. You’ve stolen something. Probably after a few beers or on a dare. Or both. You justified it as a souvenir. Now it lives in the back of a closet or at the bottom of a drawer.…