Crockpot Beef Short Ribs in Red Wine and Mexican Seasonings

When the weather gets hot like it was today, I dust off my crockpot. Slow cooking was designed for straight days like this.
Why heat up the house with a gas stove on a day like today? The tiny air conditioner in the bedroom hardly cools this dusty old place. What to make? I am hungry [...]

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Time Alone

With moments to live, he chose to spend what time there was left in his life with me. Never wanting much, just additional time alone with me. Another night together in a warm bed was all he asked for. To be snuggled in comfort, his worries put at ease in my arms, as darkness set in. He [...]

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The Demon In Me

There is little doubt in my mind that the trigger of my horrific case of schizophrenia was ecstacy and marijuana. The illness was dormant for 35 years, secretly locked within tiny DNA until I started rolling on E and smoking like the devil.
Environmental and psychological conditions were perfect for the psychotic breakout. A rash of [...]

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The Word: Crick

The phrase ‘crick’, used by indigenous mountain people of Pennsylvania, never went mainstream. The word crosses tongues there more frequently than powdered funnel cakes. The only instance that residents of Huntingdon County use ‘creek’ is whey they say “You’re up shit’s creek,” otherwise, the proper word for casual conversation there is ‘crick’. That’s what flows [...]

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The Boy with the Red Thumb

A hoe was secured between the curved handlebars of my ten-speed bicycle. Bill carried the rake. We pedaled five miles from our home in Three Springs to our family’s vegetable farm on the outskirts of Saltillo. Most children were sleeping at 6 a.m. on hot summer mornings. We were up early. We wanted to beat [...]

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Beat 360

Anderson Cooper needs to spend less time producing Emmy award winning documentaries like “Planet In Peril” and discuss the oil crisis on CNN. We have no time for ‘Name the Caption’ photo contests. I would never wear an “I Beat 360″ t-shirt. They are unfashionable, like Anderson Cooper. He has much media power, yet acts [...]

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Obsessive Compuslive Disorder and September 11th

Since September 11th, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) has run ramped in the city that never sleeps. There was more than just jet fuel and screaming civilians inside the jets that crashed into the Twin Towers. A biological agent was released– one that makes  our minds race at the speed of sound. Take a look around. [...]

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Salmonella Free Tomatoes

I get washed away by white women who are attracted to men of color. In the Army, the white guys in the barracks had a code name for white Army broads who slept around with black soldiers– “Mud Sharks”. There is nothing wrong with sleeping with a black person, the white soldiers noted. “A girl [...]

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The Drum Major and the Vagina

Cordelia’s bright smile tightened within the gentle caress of my kiss. I didn’t expect to find myself in a lip-lock with my good friend from the majorette squad of highschool band. I was the drum major. Cordelia marched behind me in parades. On the football field during halftime, she spun a sliver bar like a [...]

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Slippery When Wet

Thanks for the beer, Dad
Other kids would have killed
To have a Dad who let them drink
Riding in the back of a pick-up
I passed you a cold beer
Every time you asked for one
Through the sliding glass of the cab
“Want a beer, Charlie?”
“No Dad. Mom would be mad.”
You drove us up and down mountains
Wind blowing my long [...]

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