Tag: ShortStory
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Providence At Kennedy Lake
Providence placid lake mirrors skyheron stands with fishermen –waiting providence –LE –8/17/24
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Memoir – My Wage-slave Career – Part 6
Post Second Divorce Until Retirement For the next twelve years, until I retired, I worked at a series of free-lance technical writing jobs, procured through various temp agencies. And in between those, I worked as a substitute teacher, a lawn care provider, mower, and a waiter. I also taught Aikido and Tai Chi a couple…
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Memoir – My Wage-slave Career – Part 5
Memoir – My Wage-slave Career Continued I left the narrative off here in my last last memoir post. So, to reiterate a bit before continuing. After Hall Processesing, I did more free-lance writing, substitute teaching, and even drove a taxi cab for a while before my next full-time technical writing job at Kinetico Engineering Systems…
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Clean Lenses
My glasses were so dirty the other morning that they were giving me a headache. As I was cleaning them, it occurred to me that they were a fitting metaphor for the current distortions and virtiol of our social and mass media. As I pondered this as a metaphor, the following resulted. Clean Lenses funny…
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Another Late August Ride
Here we go again… Another Late August Ride a flock of pigeons erupts from the desert floora low cloud rolling over blousy foliageand the cracked dry ground in accordance with the blazing sun above9 o’clock in the eastern sky, with featheryfair weather clouds on the eastern horizon contradicting today’s forecast thunderstormwarnings for late afternoon and…
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Nothing There
This will be my last post for awhile. I’m taking a little break; and I don’t know how long it will be… Nothing There Looking around on any given daySurveying what human civilizationHas wrought, the consequence ofOur deepest philosophical thought A tear forms in my eyeSpills and slides down my cheekRaise my hand to wipe…
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I Married Her Just Because She Looks Like You
I Married Her Just Because She Looks Like Youby Lyle Lovett Its not the wordsYou know I’ll always love youIt’s not the wordsI wish that I could stayIt’s more the way your lips lookedAs you spoke themAnd how the moonlight fell upon your faceI married her just because she looks like you And for every…
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Burnt Umber Rorschack
Another oldie, but goodie. I hope you agree…; -) Rorschach-Like Test In Burnt Umber Watercolor Paint powdered iron oxidemediums and bindersproduces quality shadesthe earthy brownsof Burnt Umber water makes it flowinteresting shapesand textures when dryon hot or cold pressrag paper and yupo meditating on thetextured shapesrevealed from dryingtime variances findunconscious designs –LE – 4/24/23
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Memoir – Wage Slave Career – Part 4
Wage-slave Career Continued My first ‘real job’ after graduation from Hiram was as a resume writer for a small company that specialized in resumes and other business writing. I ran a small one person office in a little stripmall. The company supplied quality resume paper and the templates for resumes and curriculum vitaes. My compensation…
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Memoir – My Wage-slave Career – Part 3
My Career as a Wage-slave – Continued… At Airflex, I’d been making around $12.50/hr as a layout inspector/machinist/machine programmer. All my attempts at finding another similar factory job were in vain. None offered me more than a $10-11/hr income. With my growing family and the inflation of the time, that was disheartening. So, I rethought…
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