Category Archives: Traditions

Jail Bait

September 22, 2010 – 10:37 pm
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The Strands of Pastrami / BET ON CRAZY by Peter Nolan Smith

September 22, 2010 – 8:36 pm

The Hassidim were hurrying home from the Diamond District. The High Holidays had come early this year with Sukkor coinciding with the ancient pagan festival of Mabon, which commemorates the autumnal equinox. Sukkor is not only a bridge across the Indus, but the festival honoring the 40 years during which the Hebrews were lost in […]

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Blessing The House

July 28, 2010 – 7:00 am

Johnson had been living in Bangkok between his oil rig gigs. Hers first choice was Ban Suay Nok near her brother. Johnson had been to Ban Suay Nok twice. Her brother had no family resemblance. “He not brother 100%. Not same father.” Thai relationships are very confusing for simple farangs. Johnson decided to move to […]

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THE WAY OF SAIL by Peter Nolan Smith

July 25, 2010 – 12:36 pm

Once the world traveled by sail. One side of my ancestors arrived in America on the Mayflower. The trip lasted 66 days. My great-grandaunt Bert circumnavigated the globe in the 1870s. Her father’s clipper ship powered by wind. Steam engines replaced sail by the beginning of the 20th Century. Proud schooners and brigantines retired from […]

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April Fool’s Galore

July 16, 2010 – 6:45 pm

Keep it above the belt, stop short of total humiliation and, if possible, mix in some irony, some drama, maybe even a bogus call from the person’s old flame or new boss. A good prank, of course, involves good stagecraft. But it also requires emotional intuition. “You want to play on people’s weaknesses or dislikes, […]

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