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    Walk on the Wild Side
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    Walk on the Wild Side

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    A journey into a mysterious world. Boulders that moved became deer.

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    Writing 2019
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    3 stories and 2 essays in Maryland Mensa M-Anation in 2019

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    Said you were Carrillo on Kurdish

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    Tennessee Williams Lived Here
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    The charm of the composing stories in the quiet, away from the hurly-burly of the Old Quarter street the house fronted, appeals even now.

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    Zen in the Art of Writing
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    Following Bradbury's advice, I do a thousand words on stories, fleshing them out. Those that retain gusto, I go with and try to improve.

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    Reading Appreciation Class
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    One lady shook her head and said to me, "I wanted to ask him (the teacher) why don't we read any stories that are happy"

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    Motivation for Writing Message Stories
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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge mentioned the

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    Thomas Wolfe’s House
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    Thomas Wolfe’s House

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    After Biltmore on Saturday, Kris and I walked in downtown Asheville  Sunday morning and early afternoon. Great restaurants, street vendors, and specialty stores. Thomas Wolfe’s childhood house was in easy walking distance. He populated Look…

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    Boomer … Sees the Light
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    All baby boomers are not the same.

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    2012 Rearview Mirror

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    General areas where I wasted my time last year. I thought I better tout them again before they are obliterated by the press of internet speed

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    I worked in software design for thirty years, until I retired in 2010. Before that, there was a stint in the Marines, a job as a stock clerk for a data processing shop, and then college under the GI Bill. In the work force, I got trained in programming, moved up to tech analysis, and after night school at Johns Hopkins APL, shifted into software architecture and data warehousing. During those years, married with a growing family, I stuffed my ideas and projects into folders and file cabinets—for when I retired. Now, these years.

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    I also post on the mind’s working. I’ve been a Mensan since 1973, studying the mind as an interested observer. Visit the Mental Construction site. How does neural characteristics of the brain affect our thinking? Mainly by abstraction, similarity, and association driving the non-logical aspects of our mind.

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