The Louvre is not a place one would instinctively visit to see work by the famous Renaissance sculptor Michelangelo Buonarotti. He does have work in ...
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Conversations With Henry Miller’s Ghost
Originally written and posted in January 2003. There are two magic hours of the day which I have only really come to know and wait for, bathe in, I ...
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Commute
Commute\ Chinese man picking his nose on the streetcar. Nicely suited Asian woman on her way to work, leans forward to blow her snot filled nose onto ...
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The Rest of the Magical Story
Breathe in. Breathe out. Magical is a relative term, depending on who is experiencing it and what the expected outcome of that experience ...
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The Maya Spa At Copal
The coolness of the mud spread over me as Claire's strong hands worked the clay into my skin. Claire, a bright, young French woman with an infectious ...
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That Pesky -X
The letter -X. It's a common enough letter, but one rarely used in English at the beginning of a word, where it is pronounced like the letter -z as in ...
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Chasing My DNA: Part II: Dolni Bezdekov
Bezdekov. It was a name I had heard all of my life. We didn't know how to spell it, but after my Grandfather died, my Grams said it often enough that ...
Making Rules Only Gives Permission For Breaking Them
I loved the internet when it was a wild and wooly place filled with flame wars and uncivilized behavior. It was a creative anything goes environment, ...
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Chasing My DNA: Part I: Prague
Czechoslovakia - a land of mystery. A place that for many years existed only on a map and in the creative memory of my Grandfather - a man who, years ...
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The Paris Metro
There is a certain kind of romance surrounding the Paris Metro. This most famous subway in the world snakes under the streets of Paris, connecting her ...