I’ve spent this particular lifetime in the grip of what you might call a simple bare fact: Life is a lousy drag. Actually, that was the title of a book I saw in the window of a Chicago bookstore, must have been 50 years ago. And it wasn’t given any special treatment, didn’t call attention […]
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Over Easy: Sometimes the good guys are the bad guys
It was 1972 and the war in Vietnam had come to a standstill as peace talks took place in Paris. Both sides were supposedly putting down their arms waiting for some kind of truce to push through the rotting remains of past attempts at a peaceful ending. At that time I was teaching at the […]
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Power restored to 3,000 Midcoast CMP customers after Woolwich repairs
Power was restored to all customers as of 12:30 p.m., said CMP Spokesperson Catharine Hartnett.
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Over Easy: My friend Mike
It took years for me to find out that Michael Fessier Jr. was no longer with us. According to an online news site, he succumbed to pancreatic cancer in 2014. I’m writing about Mike Fessier because when I was just starting out in the writing game in the early 1960s, I was in a situation […]
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Over Easy: Practice meditation for the key to good government
Tai chi chuan is a Chinese system of slow meditative physical exercise designed for relaxation, balance and fighting the common cold. It is especially effective in creating harmonious bipartisanship and balance among the state or national legislators, who are losers anyway. By practicing diligently the following sequence of movements, called the Sequence of Movements, practitioners […]
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Over Easy: An alternative reality
The following is fiction, but it’s short. Notes From the Underground During the Time of the Coronavirus June 20 – Ah, I can smell spring. Three weeks I have been in lockdown quarantine. Here in the suburbs it is quiet, but in the poor neighborhoods not so good, from what I can tell from the […]
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Over Easy: What will the new normal look like?
So here we are, almost a year into a pandemic that seems to be getting worse and worse. There has been talk of a “light at the end of the tunnel.” Talk about “back to normal” and what it means to our lives. We’ve all been waiting anxiously, but the question looms: Will there be […]
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Over Easy: ‘Inaugural’ – a poem
‘Twas the night before inaugural, and at the White House the soon-to-be Ex-president was feeding fake news to a pack of reporters. Though the hour was late and the votes all collected, the Ex-president still claimed to win the election. “Of course it was rigged,” he said in a tweet, “it’s the greatest fraud in […]
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Over Easy: Heading for the last roundup
The following is fictional but short. Giuliani was the last to arrive, tucking his shirt into his pants, hoping no ants were in his pants. As typical of Rudy, his mouth arrives seconds before the rest of him. Following orders from the president to “dress like cowboys,” the entire cabinet looked like a group audition […]
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Over Easy: War and peace
I first laid eyes on Bhikkhu Danassaro, or Bhikkhu Dan as he called himself, when he showed up at one of our fortnightly Buddhist Meditation for Westerners classes. Classes took place on Monday evenings in a small room in Bangkok’s notable temple, Wat Bowonniwet, led by a small American woman dressed only in a white […]