Famous Common People I Have Known, Miss Spassky, the Little Sparrow
My own school closing down, I spent my last three years of high school in another coal camp a few miles up the creek.
I...
The Time I Took my Wife to Meet the Girls at Manos in Tokyo
You already know the story of my first visit to Manos, the Russian spy-restaurant in Tokyo. It was 1972. It was run by two brothers from...
Highlighting David Poff’s Update on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense “Human Sense”
I interjected this piece because I worked with David Poff as he rewrote Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" to reflect 20th Century American prose, and...
Famous Common People I Have Known, Zlatko, Slavka and Kolya
At right of this photo is a fellow I intend to include in my "Famous Common People' series some day, for he was one of...
My Lifelong Affair with Prostitution; In Search of the Beautiful Lt Chiquita
To have any street cred about prostitution, I have to have had some personal experiences with those long-legged females up ahead.
I had that chance,...