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 | I Worked: A True Story
This true story of quiet grit features Ralph Carestia, who began going to the mine with his father at 7-years-old, then grew himself into five businesses (trucking, paving, gravel pit, construction, and truck repair). The essence of this history was lif...
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 | A New York City Subway Diary
My Subway Diary is an in'depth look at the tales, dramas and comedies that unfold during my daily commute on the New York City Subway. As a companion piece to The Subway Chronicles: Scenes From Life in New York and the website that inspired it, my diary...
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 | Moving On
Childhood memories are powerful in that they last a life time. Vivid and bittersweet, I recall the many times I moved as a child. This short is about one of those times. After serving seven years in the penitentiary for writing hot checks, Daddy entered...
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 | Jill H. White
As a former obituary writer, I continue to be fascinated by how obits are written and read. In this piece I reflect on how I learned to write formula obits but as a reader long for the more personal profiles. That reflection turned me to thoughts about ...
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 | Food and Fiction
I wrote this food piece to knit together my love of food and language. I've always loved to read and write about food, and to eat and cook; these passions are deeply interconnected. This essay gave me the opportunity to explore some of the ways I've com...
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 | Taking the Bus
Tired of the hassles of flying, I decided take a bus to visit an old friend. The countryside, bus stations, and passengers created a delightful stage. Colorful characters appeared, revealing themselves in brief encounters and conversations, before disap...
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 | The Marrakech Express
“Marrakech Express” is a personal memoir detailing a trip I made to Morocco from The Gambia, West Africa in 1994. This was a working vacation, and I was there primarily to participate in NASA Space Shuttle emergency landing site preparations but I h...
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 | Shark Six
I wrote this story many years after the voyage of the Shark Six. At the time, I didn't realize this one week on the ocean would resonate across decades of my life. Would have, could have and should have are phrases familiar to everyone remembering, thin...
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 | The Price of Black Diamonds
As was the case with each of my true stories of individuals of quiet grit, which I categorize under my term, "VISCERAL HISTORY," this one took off on its own into a base theme. In this case, the theme rooted into the life of Joe Carpine, a coal mine own...
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 | The Last Lunch Box: A True Story
The draft of this account was collected during several days spent at an industrial site, as I listened to banter during lunch breaks, and observed labors applied to the destruction of The Energy Fuels Coal Mine in Florence, Colorado. The story features ...
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