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  • Hand of Hamesh

    Kosher Hand-Eye Coordination

    THE KOSHER HAND THAT FED ME The other night I had dinner at the Jerusalem Cafe, a new restaurant in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, a town that supposedly has more […]

  • So Rob A Bank

    The Earth is traveling around the sun 61,000 miles an hour. That is so fast no bullet on Earth could catch us.   We could get away with anything. The […]

  • Driving, Mostly Riding, With Ross

    TO TAMPA AND BACK My younger son Ross is six feet, six inches tall, has hair three feet long, a beard that near reaches his chest, and blue eyes. Some […]

  • Emergency Room Help

    HELP I heard Joshua’s cry. The nurse I spoke to came back and told me she was VERY sorry. But that Betsy would be okay. Then I understood. The terrified […]

  • Two Suns

    Two Suns Won

    I took a picture of sunrise this morning. It was cold on the beach, not so cold my hands froze, but brisk, the way my dog likes it. As you […]

  • Baby Boomer, Silver Soldier

    Silver Soldier, Robert D.

    Robert, The older I get the more valuable my friends are.  Leaving home, nearly fifty years ago, I didn’t realize how rich I was.  Coming back, finding that the best […]

  • Why the Sun Won

    IT CAME OUT OF A CLOUD LIKE THE SUN like a spinning something all gas, spun into fire, burning at the core and all the way out, making light, giving heat. […]

  • Birthday Beef Cake.

    Shag Birthday Surprise

    SHAG DANCER’S BIRTHDAY SURPRISE  A friend of mine had a birthday recently: Janet Harrold, the lady who keeps the editorials and party pictures coming from Carefree Times, the one and […]

  • Science and the Soul

    The Size of Greatness When I was younger and dumber only a boy in the 8th grade, my science teacher told us, not to mess around thinking how big the […]