One great metaphor is all a writer needs. When I was growing up, the Vietnam War was still very present in the American consciousness. The “Vietnam Syndrome” loomed over American policy so heavily that George H.W. Bush felt it necessary to call it out after the Persian Gulf War. He declared that the “ghosts ofContinue reading “The Things They Carried- Tim O’Brien”
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Traveling to the Narcissistic Island Universe of Youth: Part II
As my writing improves in the narrative, a sense of the time period begins to come out of the dry facts. There are a few references to music that have the reek of ancient history. I made my modern self laugh out loud at a description of singing a parody of Sir Mix-A-Lot that wentContinue reading “Traveling to the Narcissistic Island Universe of Youth: Part II”
Traveling to the Narcissistic Island Universe of Youth: Part I
I’m in the middle of one of the strangest, most quixotic projects of a lifetime of strange quixotic projects. Since June of 1992, I have, with very few breaks in the routine, kept a daily journal chronicling my life. Up until the last decade, I did this in physical, longhand journals. Now they areContinue reading “Traveling to the Narcissistic Island Universe of Youth: Part I”
The Attractive Nuisance 