Monthly Archives: May 2021

Wind River Mountains 1998

May 21, 2021 – 10:27 am

Wind River Mountains 1998 In the Spring of 1998 my 78 year-old father and I embarked on a road trip through Wyoming and Montana. We picked up a rented car in Bozeman, Montana and stopped the first night in Chico Hot Springs. The next morning the two of us continued down Paradise Valley to Yellowstone […]

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FASTER PUSSYCAT KILL KILL / Tura Santana

May 21, 2021 – 10:13 am

The South Shore Drive-In was located off 128 outside of Boston over the Blue Hills from my suburban development of split-level houses. No one went to the twin screens in the daytime, but on summer nights my father drove my mother and their six children to the open-air theater, where we watched THE TEN COMMANDMENTS […]

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The Bud of Ten Years After

May 21, 2021 – 7:39 am

The nuns at Our Lady of the Foothills comforted their young pupils’ loss of a favorite toy by telling the tearful student that in heaven there was a closet containing all lost possession. I found solace in this possibility even after I lost my faith in heaven and hell, however one day I realized that […]

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THE CLOSET OF LOST THINGS by Peter Nolan Smith

May 21, 2021 – 2:08 am

The Nuns of Our Lady of the Foothills taught their students math, English, religion, history, geography, and a scattering of other basic subjects. Their educational technique depended heavily on harsh discipline. Left-handers were deemed possible satanists. The nun expected everyone to be right-handed. Any laggers were beaten into submission and laziness on small ts earned […]

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Old Palestine

May 11, 2021 – 4:02 pm

Ancient Roman writers referred to Palestine as Syria Palaestina consisting of the lands between theMediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. Jaffa was the entry port for the region. The population was made up of mostly Arabs and a smattering of Jews. Arab warriors protected Palestine from Bedouin raiders. Farmers raised olive trees and orchards on […]

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