What I Meant About Bernie
Yesterday, my friend Max wrote to me: There’s a sentence in your recent post “Why not Bernie?” that I keep wondering about. You say, ”And yet by choosing Biden over Sanders they virtually guarantee...
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I want you to be safe. I don’t want you to get sick. I want you to live a long and happy life. That’s why I’m hoping you’ll get into the habit of washing your hands thoroughly with soap for at least...
View ArticleLove-In Cancelled
Dexter is totally bummed. He’d arranged to take a week off from work, had the car tuned up for the long drive, gotten all the requisite tests for sexually transmitted diseases and came out clean as a...
View ArticleDexter Digs Up His Lawn
Dexter was so looking forward to a lusty week at Happy Valley Retreat Center, but the love-in got cancelled because of the dang virus that’s going around, and going around is a humongous...
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When Dexter and his neighbor Godfrey finish building the gate connecting their backyards, they decide to hold a celebration. Dexter invites one of his best friends, Luis, who is fifty-three, and...
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On a warm afternoon in May, Dexter Jones, forty-six, gets home at five from his job of delivering packages for UPS in Springfield, Oregon, undresses in his garage, drops his uniform into the washing...
View ArticleSecond Friendship Gate
So a couple months ago, Dexter Jones built a friendship gate in his back fence connecting his yard to his neighbors’ yard. Those neighbors happen to be siblings: Godfrey and Melody. And now Godfrey is...
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View ArticleBernie and Precious Dream
I’m voting for Bernie Sanders and contributing to his campaign because he is the only person in my lifetime, seventy years, who wants what I want for our society and the world and has a chance,...
View ArticleWhat I Meant About Bernie
Yesterday, my friend Max wrote to me: There’s a sentence in your recent post “Why not Bernie?” that I keep wondering about. You say, “And yet by choosing Biden over Sanders they virtually guarantee...
View ArticleSomething Of A Clean Freak
I want you to be safe. I don’t want you to get sick. I want you to live a long and happy life. That’s why I’m hoping you’ll get into the habit of washing your hands thoroughly with soap for at least...
View ArticleLove-In Cancelled
Dexter is totally bummed. He’d arranged to take a week off from work, had the car tuned up for the long drive, gotten all the requisite tests for sexually transmitted diseases and came out clean as a...
View ArticleDexter Digs Up His Lawn
Dexter was so looking forward to a lusty week at Happy Valley Retreat Center, but the love-in got cancelled because of the dang virus that’s going around, and going around is a humongous...
View ArticleFriendship Gate
When Dexter and his neighbor Godfrey finish building the gate connecting their backyards, they decide to hold a celebration. Dexter invites one of his best friends, Luis, who is fifty-three, and...
View ArticleDexter and Melody Go Out
On a warm afternoon in May, Dexter Jones, forty-six, gets home at five from his job of delivering packages for UPS in Springfield, Oregon, undresses in his garage, drops his uniform into the washing...
View ArticleSecond Friendship Gate
So a couple months ago, Dexter Jones built a friendship gate in his back fence connecting his yard to his neighbors’ yard. Those neighbors happen to be siblings: Godfrey and Melody. And now Godfrey is...
View ArticleLittle Movies
Dear Readers, I’m pleased to announce the birth of my new book Little Movies: tales of love and transformation, a collection of fourteen contemporary short stories. Dramatic and often funny, these...
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