Category Archives: Driving

Hurry Hurry to Nowhere

July 5, 2010 – 7:42 am

June 22 marked the summer solstice. The longest day of the year. America’s calender is governed by the July 4th holiday. The official start of summer and nothing says summer more than the Independence Day Traffic Festival. Millions of cars, trucks, and motorcycles hit the highways. Destination. Fun, sun, BBQs, beer, beaches, pools, lakes, mountains. [...]

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THAI ACCIDENTAL SMILE By Peter Nolan Smith

June 28, 2010 – 7:09 am

My first big sale at the diamond exchange was a 5-carat round brilliant. F color. SI in clarity. The year was 1991. The profit margin was 20%. My commish was $1500. The NY Times travel section advertized a round-the-world ticket for $1399. I had 5 Gs in the the bank. I told Manny and his [...]

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Happy Father’s Day

June 21, 2010 – 12:16 am

Father’s Day has complemented Mother’s Day since 1910, although the holiday was unofficial for decades and Americans treated Father’s Day as a joke, until LBJ proclaimed the 3rd Sunday in June Father’s Day. Richard Nixon made it permanent six years later. I recall giving my father a tie on several Father’s Day. A bottle of [...]

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Unacceptable Contrition

June 11, 2010 – 7:28 pm

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a disaster for the ocean. Another blow against Nature. An unparalleled ecological disaster without any end in sight. British Petroleum, Halliburton, and the Bureau of Mines and Minerals. Capitol, science, and government. A Triumvirate of failure. The American people want to know why. Someone had to [...]

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BRANDI

April 13, 2010 – 9:42 pm

My friend Peter Gore and I were driving north from Boston in my VW. It was 1973. Midnight. We were tripping on Sunshine. BRANDI was playing on the radio. My headlights caught a woman hitchhiking by the side of the road. Red dress and leather jacket. One shoe in her hand. The heel was broken. [...]

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