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Friendship & the Loneliness of Traveling

On the road again. And this time it feels different, because it is the same. On the...
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To Build a Bridge

Like dusk finding the edge of day, I see my exhausted face in the mirror and I...
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Brian will be missed… for a bit

The building where I live has a lobby that is custodied 24/7 by a staff of reasonably...
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The Double Ambassador

I was going to speak at an event in Mexico city and needed my beard trimmed a...
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Easy comes, easy goes… did it really happen?

1998 And just like that, I learned to let go. I say it this way so that...
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A creed kind of an afternoon

  I should go to central park more often. It helps clarify the mind, and sometimes even...
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Lucy in the sky with demons

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Veinte pesos

En el camino del aeropuerto a la ciudad del Puerto de Veracruz hay un famoso motel (telo,...
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Los que quedamos

Los amigos   Eran las seis cuarenta y siete de la tarde y ya llevaban casi dos...
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To abandon yourself to running before running abandons you

  I once met a serious woman who was training for a marathon at a corporate cocktails...
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The end of “A Beer For The Shower”

The highlight of my Mondays was, for a number of years, the latest comic of the fun...
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Looking in all the wrong places

 Somewhere in January, 2020 We no longer want to figure out the question. Right now, all we...
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A brief dialogue in sociopathy

Claire: I couldn’t believe my ears, Julius. Just two paces away, three of the students at school...
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Rule 34 – If it exists, there is porn of it

It is commonly known that Peter Morley-Souter gave birth to Rule #34. He allegedly captioned a 2003...
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Weak Links To Loss

I know I can escape society for a while. My wife does not need to know where...
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What is it good for?

The more I tried to look away, the more my eyes got pulled back to his face;...
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Southern Poetry Stamps – Revisited 7 years later

May 19th, 201816:52 “La Poesía” cafe, one of the best known literary coffee houses in Buenos Aires,...
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Why not?

Happiness is overrated and reductive. Seriously, try experiencing some other emotions that remind you that you’re human...
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Brief accounts of the inner self – Oaxaca

San Jose del Pacifico is a small town south of Oaxaca, in Mexico. Getting here is quite...
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40 Exceptions

This is 40. And it doesn’t feel a day over 30. Except, left shoulder and right knee...
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Fish, cakes, and naked rabbit teeth

Teeth and Gums It is already 4:21 PM and I still have to battle the stubborn taste...
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The tattooed clown

There is a small graveyard behind a non-denomination church in Amsterdam I like to stop by from...
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Final Copa Mundial: Italia-Francia, Julio 9 del 2006

  El dia tan esperado! La final de Fussball! Un polaco de nombre Paultz – nos hicimos...
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A homelesson for real men

A beggar asked me for a dollar. I asked him about the meaning of life. He seemed...
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The departing bus

And just like that, we parted ways. There are three truths: what I saw, what she saw...
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Lost and found

Airports, stores, bus stations and movie theatres have it. It is the little room with the least...
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The burden of living life, and staying sane

The biblical stance towards life, “… be fruitful and multiply”, does not a one-size-fits-all make. It did...
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Incomplete

Tonight, I decided not to order delivery and instead walked into a bar in Midtown, my left...
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The Argentinean love-hate affair

The growling sounds of my stomach woke me up at around three in the afternoon. Only bodily...
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All roads lead to Rome

1. City Living on the second floor of a tall condominium building leaves me with a greater...
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The Underbelly

Revolving doors are not for people. They are for animals. Cows, dogs, cats, lab rats, monkeys… We...
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The Mexican Aztec tiger is still missing its teeth – Brief Notes series

Mexico is back in the limelight, in a way that reminds many of a pre-’94 era when...
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Heated Constitutional Debate in Venezuela – Amended AP news piece

Heated Constitutional Debate in Venezuela 2013-01-09 17:14:13.365 GMT Caracas, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s joke of a congress...
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Mexico post 2012 election – Brief Notes series

At the height of a bitter political campaign this year, the average Mexican citizen found himself forced...
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The high-school reunion

And so I missed the ferry to the island of Saint John, in the U.S. Virgin Islands....
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Useless Icelandic doors

Catching a strong flu in the middle of the summer is only ironic if you associate the...
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The dead cat that lives

Life in Yala has got to be the slowest on earth. The tropical heat of the summer,...
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Rivers flow into the ocean

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Happy After-Vacation Thoughts (by Loretto)

An independent contribution from a RIT follower Sunken into the awful reality of having to go back...
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Modern Fanaticism

Counterintuitive as it sounds, it is easy for a person like me to identify with the weak...
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If you are bored and you are selfish, clap your hands

Boredom. At every level, and in every sense. This is not the kind of fun I was...
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Of eating, dancing, mating and other diseases (but mostly dancing) – Part 1

As a kid, I would often wonder what exactly was the point of dancing, especially from a...
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Grand Central State of Hope

We often walk back and forth without even looking up to see the faces of those we...
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The Barber Shop

When you enjoy spending your weekend mornings under the bed sheets the way I do, it is...
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Praying rebellion, action versus fiction

Simple, basic, average people will tell you prayer is powerful. They will tell you stories of desperate...
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The cemetery dream

Come to think of it, we are all sitting by the entrance of the cemetery, patiently waiting...
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The burdens of paradise

People tend to envy those who live near the sunny beach. Endless summers, starry nights, the proximity...
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Hudební Barel

Theodore von Girnisch was put in this world to deliver God’s message through music. To that end,...
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How to leverage your moronic self: an excerpt

And so I asked her – imagine I am an unsophisticated investor, only used to long positions...
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A brief story of life and unemployment

Most of the people who suffer insomnia bear the bulk of its effects the next day. It...
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Stop

I used to think life on land stood still while I flew. How could things even happen...
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The hidden blessings of corporate life

Writing simply because you are bored is the quickest way to help others lose interest in the...
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To be, to become

To become a true artist, one needs to develop a STRONG stomach. Taking non-constructive criticism and outright...
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The science of poetry

In San Diego, California, on the southwest corner of K Street and 6th avenue, you may find...
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The smile

Fragments of the old journal. Times of good fortune are few and far apart. More common are...
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Local News – Light February snow storm reactions in Northeast US

Journalist: How about this weather? Lady driving: I have had it with the snow. Can we get...
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Consequences

A close friend of mine tried very hard and for a long time to get his wife...
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Conviction

The largest losses are often incurred on the highest levels of conviction. And I have a fair...
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Project Workplace. Research Journal Entry # 4

Jan, 2011 A test conducted on the human specimens that inhabit the firm consists of showing up...
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Project Workplace. Research Journal Entry # 3

Jan, 2011 The firm has a Big-Brotheresque mentality to office behaviour. Every step you take, gesture you...
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Project Workplace. Research Journal Entry # 2

Jan, 2011 A human specimen sitting behind me complained that I cough too loud and too often…...
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Project Workplace. Research Journal Entry # 1

Jan, 2011 I am planning to extend a casual greeting to my fellow workers at the office....
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The Zodiac Killer

If you are depressed because your zodiac sign just changed, and now you don’t know what describes...
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2011

Don’t use a brand new year when the old one is just as good. Recycle. Do your...
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Carbon Footprint

How large is the carbon footprint of a race car driver? You may think of him as...
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Universe

The universe is infinite, vast. You are only a very small, insignificant part of it. Why should...
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I Eat Meat

Was feeling guilty about ordering a hamburger. But then I thought, “What have cows done for me...
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Lemons

If life throws you lemons, throw them back at life and laugh on its face… Then stop...
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The brass of the Titanic

September 2010 Yes, we are all polishing it. We are furiously passing our hands up and down...
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Try to make me go

August 2010 Sunny day, lonely drifters passing by. A junkie has arrived into town. I know he...
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Une Cigarette Avec Madame Troboa

En la esquina de Boulevard Saint Germain y Rue de Bellechasse existe un establecimiento llamado “Mucha Cafe”....
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Politics

Politics is fundamentaly the art of gaining power and keeping it. It commonly wears the costume of...
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Short

Life is miserable. You should stop pretending that it is beautiful or that it can be improved....
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Why am I sad?

I looked at my hands today, but couldn´t bear to look at them for too long. The...
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Temptations

Temptations are everywhere, and can take any shape. And they are fast. You may run, but they...
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Domesticated

I am spiritually docile cattle, mentally weak. War, hunger, the environment… Those things don´t concern me. All...
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Lying

You got married, but I never got the invitation to the wedding. At first, I felt betrayed....
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Mid-Year Performance Review

Today, I had my mid-year performance review. What a pathetic display of selfishness masked by that holier-than-thou...
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Perceptions

“You would think I am thin, if you didn’t see me or knew my weight”. – Ruestrasse
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