Category Archives: friends

MEMORY LOSS by Peter Nolan Smith

March 27, 2012 – 1:19 pm

The Catholic Church and other derivatives of the Judeo-Christian faith extol monogamy as the true state of man and woman, then explain sex through the mystery of the birds and bees. Actually my parents never lectured their children on that subject, although they spoke about the stork whenever a new brother or sister arrived unannounced […]

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Spring Has Sprung

March 21, 2012 – 2:58 pm

Snow has been absent from New York since my return from Europe. A few snow flurries have dusted the sidewalks of Fort Greene and the city experienced a cold snap in February, but otherwise this winter has been extremely abnormal. Today’s temperature reached the mid-70s and tomorrow is predicted to hit a new record for […]

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Bye Bye Barbara

January 14, 2012 – 11:19 pm

Yesterday I received an email informing me of Ms. Carolina’s demise. I went to the water temple in Sri Racha to pray for my good friend Barbara’s safe passage. We had seen the world together. My three year-old son and I bought some fish to release into the sea for good luck. They swam away […]

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Live Long and Prosper In Iowa

December 17, 2011 – 9:42 am

Wilbur Harrison had a hit with KANSAS CITY. My schoolmate, Joe Fielder, traveled to the Paris of the Plains in 1965. The police caught him in St. Louis. He escaped through the bathroom window. The 14 year-old reached KC the next day. He ordered a steak and then rode a Greyhound to the South Shore […]

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BAD INFLUENCE by Peter Nolan Smith

November 22, 2011 – 6:50 am

Last winter Enos Washing called me at the diamond exchange. “I heard from your cousin that you had come back from Thailand.” Enos had visited Ty Spaulding in Pattaya and the then-broker had thought the Last Babylon ‘dirty. He wasn’t wrong. “I’m back almost four years.” I hoped Ty had said nothing about the circumstances […]

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