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I am an antiquarian bookseller and free-lance writer living near Albany in Upstate New York. I have a bachelor's and master's degree in Literature. My interests are reading, writing, history, politics and religion.

I am also interested in the law. I am specially

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Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections on real life heroes: 23 of 169
She was pregnant for eleven years and three months. Not all at one time, of course. She had sixteen children as the result of fifteen pregnancies-there was one set of twins. They all had the same father. Two died at birth, leaving fourteen surviving children. She never fought in a war, ran into a burning building to rescue a... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Bush Administration Letters to President Bush: 9 of 49
Note: The following letter was written immediately after hearing about the shooting of Amish children in a school house in Pennsylvania. October 3, 2006 Dear President Bush: It's time to bring the troops home from Iraq. I say that, not as a carping liberal critic, but as someone who has voted 95% Republican ever since 1980 w... More..
Entertainment > TV Show Reviews Remembering The Andy Griffith Show: 5 of 27
Life seemed so bleak in November of 1992. Bill Clinton had just been elected president, and I was not happy. I began searching for some thread of commonality, some bit of yarn that I could weave between myself and the Clinton administration. I had given up the search as hopeless until I stumbled upon common ground in an unus... More..
Business > Web Marketing How to manage a website on a small budget: 1 of 5
Unless you know how to create a website, it is not wise to develop your own. Besides why should you take time away from what you love and do best to do what someone else can do better. While local computer programmers provide certain advantages, a custom designed website will easily top $500. The best way to get a website se... More..
Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: I remember when: 3 of 14
I remember when there were wood burning computers. Well, not quite. But I do remember when computers were programmed with punch cards, and I also remember buying my first personal computer, the Tandy Color Computer 2. The CoCo 2, as it was affectionately called by its many fans, came with a whopping 64kb of Random Access Mem... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Terrorism Terrorism: An epidemic of fear: 8 of 36
Have the terrorists aleady won by creating an epidemic of fear? If terror is the goal of terrorists, then the terrorists have won because terror is driving politics and policy in the United States. Before anyone jumps to the conclusion that this article is being written by a bleeding heart liberal, let me give you my credent... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: September 11, 2001: 25 of 110
I Was Teaching When The Towers Fell I was teaching when the towers fell ENG 104. Section B. Unaware that hell and the smell Of burnt sacrifice were drifting across Manhattan. I was teaching Updike's "A & P" when the towers fell, Talking about heroism, while heroes were bearing And being borne, and born, and born again. I was... More..
Creative Writing > Satire Satire: Environmental issues: 3 of 12
The year was 2025. The United States was finally out of Afghanistan and Iraq and almost completely out of the State of Florida. In the summer months that is. Floridians headed north every summer now to escape the 120 and 130 degree temperatures resulting from global warming. The people in the north, who no longer could remem... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Family Law Why few people are arrested for filing false child abuse reports: 1 of 4
Even though Roy Dumar appeared on the front page of The Daily Gazette on the same day as Rosa Parks (November 3), he is an unlikely civil rights hero. Nevertheless, this former justice of the Town of Mohawk in Montgomery County won a small battle recently in the war to protect the rights of people who have been falsely accus... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Constitutional & Contract Law The American flag: Love it or burn it: 6 of 23
People who burn the United State's flag seem to me not just people who want to protest the government or people who hate the United States, but people who are full of self-hatred. They should be careful. The fire they start when igniting a flag may blow back and consume them. How people feel about flag burning seems to have ... More..