Vignette Still in Process
Unfinished Draft
Tennis? Anyone?
Take the recent fawning adulation received by Roger F and Serena W on the news of their retirement Gentlemen’s game? Humiliating/Frustrating Brings out the worst in people We don’t get off on it, when we beat an opponent. And it is especially galling when an opponent beats you, and he clearly gets of on it. …
Texas Police Display Courage and Rare Intelligence in Local Mass Killing
In process… “Hell, no, I’m not going in there. The guy ‘s got a gun!” Dateline: Uvalde TX June 2022 -Grossly overweight
Generalized Guilt Disorder, or GGD
In progress…
Bethel Police Builds Prison Yard
Caught you!
A Letter to a Classmate
Dear Mike, I have been wanting to write, to reach out, to you, since our Class reunion and your last communication with some of us on the Committee. Alas, I must write you now on a quite different subject. Dear friends and classmates, our Reunion team,After five weeks of unexpected turbulence, my family has entered…
LE Memoir: Lotte
Lotte could not be challenged, on anything. If you, or it, didn’t conform with her view, either it did not exist, or it was a personal insult. She could ignore anything not on the approved list. (eg. Myra’s announcement of pregnancy…Lotte contonued to speak right over it). It was awesome to behold, and scary…she could…
Priests and nuns…
Dom Emilio and the others in São Paulo Father Neyron and Sister Teresa of NDV in San Francisco The Jesuit goons at SI in San Francisco The Jesuit who left the order for money management
Girl Meets Boy in São Paulo
When Johnny lived in São Paulo in the early 1950’s, he couldn’t speak Portuguese, so he didn’t talk very much. He had come from somewhere else, far away; he was very white, with long, blond curly hair. His folks had fled the European War, and here they were. Once, coming back from the ice cream…
Romney Up Against the Wall (Continued)
[…] JERUSALEM! The arrival of the seven-mile-long motorcade was preceded by the descent on the scene of hundreds of Israeli local police and even more Israeli Defense Forces regulars, bristling with every weapon imaginable, from long sabers to bazookas and shoulder-mounted mortars. Colorful tourists and sombre religious Hasidim were all shooed out of the way…
Charles Henry, SJ (2)
(IN PROGRESS) No memoir of ours can be complete without some mention of this man. Sure enough, another priest, a sorry excuse for a man, unsexed and unloved, except maybe by his mom. The SJ part is a reference to the Society of Jesus, to which he belonged, having been ordained a priest by the…
The Boy and His Barn – Explication
Where the boy and his barn are given some background and information.
Aka George Kaplan
In Process In Process Who the heck is George Kaplan? Back to Land’s End Stories: Contents Page