Category Archives: youth

What’s Your Number?

November 1, 2011 – 5:50 am

The BBC News reported the birth of Baby # 7,000,000,000 in the Philippines. Later in the day they added a calculator to divine where readers should in the scheme of things. Having been born in May of 1952 I ended up the 2,620,399,874th person alive on Earth and the 75,870,745,158th person to have lived since […]

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# 7,000,000,000

October 31, 2011 – 3:55 am

The population of the world in 1952 was 2.635 billion. My birth in May of that year was lost in the infantile deluge of America’s Baby Boom. I was anonymous to everyone, but my family. Today the population clock hit seven billion and the Philippines declared a baby born at a Manila hospital was baby […]

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The Closet of Lost Things

June 12, 2011 – 5:58 pm

The Nuns of Our Lady of the Foothills taught their students math, English, religion, history, geography, and a scattering of basic subjects. Their educational technique depended heavily on rote memorization and harsh discipline. The Palmer penmanship was beaten into our rebellious right hands. The left hand belonged to the Devil. Laziness on small ts earned […]

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GIMME SHELTER – Grand Funk Railroad

May 16, 2011 – 7:50 am
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FREE AS A BIRD by Peter Nolan Smith

May 15, 2011 – 3:45 pm

Hitching a ride out of Amarillo tested a young man’s courage in July of 1974. Cowboys hated long-hairs. My friend, AK, and I dodged more than a few beer bottles, while standing on the shoulder of the east-bound highway. Most of the goat-ropers drank Bud. They had lousy aim. The dusk sky offered a murky […]

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