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 | North of Shetlands in Force Nine
A true story of whaling in the Faeroes during the post war years. A dramatic story describing a vicious storm in the Atlantic and a windswept whaling station with all its daily horrors A narration of hard times where tough men work in a tough environmen...
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 | The Perpetual Pea: The Tale of a Geneticist
Johannes Mendel was born in Moravia in 1822. He was intelligent and in order to pursue his education he became an Augustine Monk. At the monastery he found that his calling in life was certainly not teaching or religion so instead he became interested i...
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 | The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor
I spent nearly 35 years working with and around Tony Mazzocchi. For me, he conjured up a labor movement that didn't really exist, but just might. It wouldn't just fight to protect the workforce from toxic substances—it would eliminate them. It wo...
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 | Of Ponies and Trolls
I originally wrote ”Of Ponies & Trolls“ upon my return from Iceland in 1996, the dating evident in the cultural references. I wrote it because I loved Iceland and, I suppose, because all writers need to get one second-person narration out ...
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 | All or Nothing: Self Analysis of a Binge Drinker
I drank from a social to Binge levels that started as a child through to the time I wrote this short. I wanted to write about my relationship with alcohol as it has had a major effect on my life. There aren't many people around me who don't drink, and i...
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 | Heads Up
It was imperative that we escape the bleak northeastern winter. The Florida Keys seemed like the perfect place to unwind. We expected beach, sun, beer and babes. What we got was a holiday both surreal and cathartic. Our unusual and somewhat disturbing h...
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 | Where Wheels Walk: Starting Over - Part 2
We (My wife and I) have yet to come to terms with the most defining moment of our life. The enormity of it has overwhelmed us and sent me scurrying down the corporate ladder, then humbled me and turned our days and nights upside down. We are terribly de...
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 | A Cowboy Ain't No Ordinary Man
A Cowboy Ain't No Ordinary Man was written as a tribute to my dear uncle, Wade Hansen, who lived with the struggles, both physical and mental, of diabetes. I wrote this to let people know that Wade Hansen dealt with this awful disease in an honorable ma...
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 | Mzee and the Hedgehog
My mother took my brother and me on her Back-to-Africa quest from Los Angeles to Uganda just as Idi Amin Dada fomented his bloody military takeover of the newly independent government. While she taught sciences at two teacher training colleges just nort...
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 | Chopin and the Albino Squirrel
For me, the stages of writing a book follow a definite pattern. ThereÂ’s the initial urge, which is dread (why do you even bother writing these stupid books, youÂ’ll never be any good) and wild happiness (happiness only because the book isnÂ’t written y...
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