Category Archives: Health

CHICKEN MESSIAHS by Peter Nolan Smith

January 31, 2022 – 12:36 pm

Several years ago the media covered a story about rat-infested aGreenwich Village KFC. The stock for Yum Corp, which owns the fast food chain along with Taco Bell, dropped fifty cents on the NYSE with the negative news and I felt bad, because for several years I had been a quality control inspector for KFC […]

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NOTHING BETTER THAN PIZZA by Peter Nolan Smith

August 28, 2021 – 1:37 am

Back in 1995 I left the USA after the death of my younger brother. My plan was to visit the holiest places in Asia. I was a non-believer, but believed this pilgrimage would help Michael’s soul in eternity. By late August I had reached in old Yunnan city of Lijiang in Southern China. My hotel […]

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AUGUST 9, 1978 JOURNAL ENTRY – EAST VILLAGE

August 9, 2021 – 2:28 pm

AUGUST 9, 1979 Over a week ago my hillbilly girlfriend and I watched television at our friend’s Kim, duplex. We returned to my room of Ezast 11th Street around midnight. The SRO’s manager knocked on the door, asking, “Mr. Smith, are you moving tomorrow? Check-out is 11.” “Yes, I’m leaving, but now so leave me […]

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AUGUST 4, 1978 JOURNAL ENTRY – EAST VILLAGE

August 4, 2021 – 9:14 am

The Red Sox break out of their slump, taking two games from the Yankees. Jim Rice looks slow, but they are playing in 95F weather. The weather is no better in the East Village. The agust air is exhausted by summer. I’ve only been to the beach once in comparison to my beach bum days […]

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Slow Tongue

June 19, 2021 – 1:51 am

I have a stutter. I have it since childhood. My teacher at Pine Grove Elementary School feared that I might be retarded and strongly suggested to my parents that I visit a speech expert in Portland, which was the biggest city in Maine. My father and mother drove me to Maine Medical. A doctor gave […]

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