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  • A Special Charter

    A SPECIAL CHARTER CLIENT PICKUP Normal procedure would have been to pick them up at the town dock, the usual spot for charter boats to meet tourist clients, but Denise told me this group wanted to be picked up at the ferry dock on Gravina …

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    AMPLE LADY When Liza, my deckhand, informed me: “Deidre doesn’t like to ride in dinghies”, I knew something was wrong. “What the hell kind of request is that?” I thought, “The guest of honor wants to be picked up at the dock instead of riding …

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  • Nell

    NELL A MEMOIR She was Nell.  When I brought home friends from school they would call her Mrs. Burn, which was due to the fact that when I was five years old she had married my stepfather, Herbert M. Burn Jr. My cousins called her …

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  • COUNTER ATTACK

     COUNTER ATTACK To be called back to work after three years of retirement was an ego stroking of orgasmic proportions. And it was of little consequence to me that it was in the wilds of Georgia where they wanted me to be the executive director …

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  • On Becoming a Pastoral Counselor or As God is My Pimp

    ON BECOMING A PASTORAL COUNSELOR Or  As God is My Pimp     “What would you do, if I tried to kiss you, tried to get it on with you right now?” She said it with a smile on her pretty face. She was a …

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  • Sea Fantasy

    In search of a sailor’s fantasy I hoisted the sail on my clipper ship dory And put out to sea, As I waved  farewell to an old weathered lighthouse, It blessed my voyage with its blinking goodbye. Beyond reef and shoal, the ocean cradled dory leaned long in …

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  • Rage!

    RAGE Rage?! Rage! you say?     The way to face my old age? Well maybe.   Yeah, could be. Yes, that’s it!   The way to face my old age. To “rage against the dying of the light” And a special Kudo to Dylan for the oh so noble …

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  • A Letter Too Late

    It never made sense.  He was bigger than any of us, and just as strong, but we picked on him mercilessly.  Even now, examining it in retrospect, I can’t understand it.  Of course teenagers have that organic angst over being in the nether regions of …

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  • My Blog

    Without pretending or aspiring to being a “writer”, I feel compelled to write of certain experiences I have had or witnessed. Based on the interest of friends and family in these stories, I have decided they are worth sharing and preserving. Further motivation comes from …

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