Monthly Archives: March 2024

The Death Of Baseball

March 13, 2024 – 1:45 am

Three years ago I was invited to a Red Sox-Yankees game at the Rich People Stadium. Our seats were behind home plate and I wanted to show my gratitude to my host and ordered four beers and hot dogs. The bill came to $70. At least the Red Sox won the game, but despite the […]

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Mirrors Don’t Tell All

March 12, 2024 – 11:03 am

We look in the mirror thinking that’s how people see us but it’s how we see ourselves. At one time I stopped looking in the mirror and only viewed myself as a shadow at sunset. Now I look in the mirror and no longer see who I was or am or will be. I only […]

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August 3, 1994 – East Village – Journal Entry – Dmitri Turin

March 12, 2024 – 8:35 am

When I caught a ride with my sister Pam to attend Debbie Greer’s funeral, I didn’t tell anyone where I was going. After the service we went to her house. Her husband, an Army artillery major, was rightly distraught as was my sister-in-law and her family and friends and CIA co-workers. Her boss, the CIA […]

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Dmitri Turin – Still On The Road

March 12, 2024 – 7:10 am

Dmitri Turin was born in Russia. His mother was a mathematician. His father was reputed to have been KGB. Natalia Dmitrievna Svetlova left him to marry the legendary Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The Politburo exiled the writer and his family in 1974. They moved to America. Vermont to be exact. Dmitri left the family compound and moved […]

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A HERO OF THE ROAD by Peter Nolan Smith

March 12, 2024 – 3:52 am

A HERO OF THE ROAD by Peter Nolan Smith Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it. – Evel Knieval MANGOZEEN BOOKS 2022 CHAPTER 1 A lice infestation swept through southern Maine in the winter of 1958 and every school district mandated crew cuts for all the boys without […]

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