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Hey, Hyphenate This!

I’m not 100% liberal, but I lean far more left than right.  Probably what keeps me off the liberal top 10 list is that I’m okay with the death penalty in certain circumstances.  Items on my liberal agenda include legalizing marijuana, believing in global warming, pro-choice, equal pay for equal work, the Affordable Care Act,…

Snow

At about 7 this morning I was outside shoveling roughly 5 inches of snow.  This was probably the seventh time this winter that significant snowfall called me out, interrupting coffee or wine or whatever I could have been drinking while watching another movie.  As neighbors and friends were bitching and moaning about more of the…

Yo. Little Help.

I’m having a little trouble with something, but I can’t tell you what.  Let me be more specific.  I’m working on a short story, but I’m not sure if something is clear that needs to be clear. It’s a story about two regular, average kids in a regular, average, middle-American town.  However, there’s something a…

Fall, or Autumn, or – Summer’s Gone

(reposted, because you never read it) There’s no question that I love summer, always did as a kid, having played baseball throughout childhood both little league and street league.  However, as blasphemous as it seems, there came a time when I was ready to go back to school. There’s something about new shoes, jeans, long…