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THE SHADOW MAN

THE SHADOW MAN

It is surpassing strange that reality is something that can be all of one thing in one moment, and be some entirely different thing in the next.   Take for example the experience of sleep.  We wrestle with problems, sometimes even solve them, and then awaken to sort...
Things Go Away

Things Go Away

  However fond one may be of a memory, after a time the details fade.  That is just what one expects to happen to a dream.  But life is just the same way.  The particulars, for some unknown reason, are misfiled by some careless clerk in an underpaid part of the...
Gnome on the Range

Gnome on the Range

On one hand you may trade or collect the little statues known as garden gnomes as kitsch – trashy but somehow cool objects that are not quite art. Pink flamingos are also both kitsch and cool.  Hitler teddy bears are definitely kitsch but very uncool. Maybe your...
A Fond Farewell to Some New Friends

A Fond Farewell to Some New Friends

I am friends with four old bachelor goats.  Every morning they call me to my duties.  These duties include letting all the chickens out into the wide world and feeding the old bachelor goats their breakfast. Their version of granola is kept in a galvanized steel feed...
The Old Homestead

The Old Homestead

Crazy Oaks is too small for a golf course and too big for a horseshoe pitch. It is five acres, if you don’t count the generous easement for the county road. It lies between Needles, California and Paducah, Kentucky along a road that was never paved until long after I...