“Why is it so important that I pretend to be a Yankee fan, Sue?” I said, trying not to be heard above the din at Yankee stadium. “What difference does it make?” “You can’t pretend!” Sue hissed at me. “Don’t you dare tell anyone in my family that you’re pretending. I don’t want to give [...]
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Take me out of this ballgame (new fiction)
Posted in Fiction, tagged baseball, fiction, Linkedin, personal, romance, short story on May 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
How Did I Get To Be a Liberal, Lefty, Commie, Pinko In a Conservative America? (Chapter 3)
Posted in Personal Narrative, Politics, Words & Writing, tagged conservative, history, leftist, liberal, personal, politics, seventies, Vietnam War, Watergate, writing on December 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is the third chapter of my saga and I still haven’t left the 1970s. That was when a plethora (not a word I use often) of world events, societal upheavals, and personal experiences coalesced into a single irresistible force, urging me inexorably leftward. (Note: most of the sentences that follow will be simpler and [...]
