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...at 57 years young,I have led a life more intense than fiction. Came up in the 60s in Berkely,SF, and the Bay Area.Served as a Ranger in Viet Nam.Worked for the Intelligence Community for a number of years.Worked in Silicon Valley,my badge number at Atari

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Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Life: 4 of 163
.....noonish.The downtown Lutheran church bell waft in and out around the piddling rain drops.This early cold spell is driving the color up into the trees,the green of summer passed giving way to the promise of winter to come. The huddled masses below his eighth floor window shuffle along with a sad determination down the sli... More..
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Depression: 4 of 71
...it was Officially Autumn at 5:19pm the day before yesterday. At 5:20pm the world still looked the same.That was depressing. But then for me everything is depressing. I really can't remember the last time I had a real good laugh or smiled broadly or actually felt "good" about anything...well thats not really the truth. On ... More..
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Struggle: 5 of 19
...and I'm Still Depressed!....when I got home from Nam, I wasn't scared anymore but, I had brought back a raging case of PTSD. I also got spit on at the San Francisco airport by some skinny probably stoned hippie chick who wasn't satisfied with screaming in my face that I was some sort "Baby Killer". Getting spit on is REAL... More..
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Conflict: 3 of 11
....I am no longer a prisoner of my past.....I am not the victim of my crimes.....because it is I who is plagued by vapid fearful specters of the injustices I perpetrated upon those who claimed to love me does not mean the violated are haunted as well. If my crimes against those "others" were truly as vicious and killer-mean ... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: As October begins: 6 of 19
...cool slate grey October when she said that her love for me had wilted, had died. She rose from our lover's bed, and turned her face away. " Every spoken word' she said softly, is dependant on a caring listener. just as every written word requires a gentle reader and neither of these things have you ever been for me." More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Growing old: 101 of 190
Es Spiritu Sancti Once a youngish man, I believed insanity's onset would be swift and nuclear,not insipid and insidious where the protocols of thought are slowly,darkly perforated, harbingening a fear dyslexic, more terrifying than instinct, more primal than reptilian reason; a place where self-doubt's persistent vapidity pa... More..
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Science fiction: 93 of 165
Twilight on Aurus......before there was Beginning, before the River of Time had tasted it's very first drop, there was only the mind of the Nameless One.Neither did it sleep nor dod it dream and yet was it the fulfillment of everything and nothing....at once,deep,deep within it's meditations, a single 'thought' began to take... More..
Religion & Spirituality > New Age Concepts The Astral Plane explained: 5 of 8
.....my maternal grandmother was born in Wales.She came to America in 1909.She was a practitioner of Household, or White Magik.I know this because besides always seeming a little odd, at the age of 5 she started to take me aside and began to tell me about the "Wonderful Secrets of this World and That", which in my young mind ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Family Law There should be restrictions on the availability of abortion, except when the mother's life is at stake: 39 of 59
...Even though being pregnant will never happen to me, I disagree with the debate statement whole heartedly BUT NOT for the reasons you might suppose.Yes I believe that abortion should not be used as birth control, but as China and Russia and Indonesia ,for example,and their citizen's become more and more wealthy, they are go... More..
Relationships & Family > Cheating & Trust Issues The "other woman": Perceptions vs. realities: 22 of 28
.....my wife and I had met in grade school some 24 years before. I was a year older. I bought a turquoise Siamese Friendship ring and asked herto marry me in 1964. As fate would have it, the marriage did not happen until 1987.( In 64 we moved from Ohio to California. I came back in 1986. I can't remember why.).....we were hap... More..