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Dec 28, 2022

The Wizard Wasn’t The Most Wonderful Thing About Oz

A few years ago, I was able to watch the classic film from 1939, The Wizard of Oz, on the big screen at the Paramount Theater in Oakland, California. It’s long been a favorite film of mine. It was great to see it with an audience in the sort of…

Film

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The Wizard Wasn’t The Most Wonderful Thing About Oz
The Wizard Wasn’t The Most Wonderful Thing About Oz
Film

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·Apr 24, 2021

The Train to Roma

It was nearly midnight when I got off the train in Milan. I had made it all the way up to Denmark during my spring break from studying in Rome but now I was heading back. I had hitchhiked south through…

Travel

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The Train to Roma
The Train to Roma
Travel

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Apr 12, 2021

Kermit Skromme

Forty-four years after I graduated from high school, I heard that one of my favorite teachers was not doing well. I was able to find an email address for his daughter. This is an edited and digested form of the letter I sent to her, for her to read to…

Shakespeare

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Kermit Skromme
Kermit Skromme
Shakespeare

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Jan 20, 2021

Jesse Had a Wife

By Daniel McCoy “Jim! Danny! You better get up! You don’t want to be late for school!” My mom is holding the bedroom door half open and calling from the hallway. She had called us a few minutes earlier, but both my brother Jim and I had drifted back off to…

Suicide

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Jesse Had a Wife
Jesse Had a Wife
Suicide

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Jul 17, 2020

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble.

I do love a good Mark Twain quote. “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” One thing I really love about that quote is how it kind of spirals in on itself if you try to…

Certainty

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It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble.
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble.
Certainty

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Jun 27, 2020

Mr. Gilmore

With all of the talk of race, I’ve been thinking a lot about my experience growing up in San Jose, California, back when San Jose was known for orchards instead of silicon and software. Most of San Jose, and certainly the part I…

Raceinamerica

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Mr. Gilmore
Mr. Gilmore
Raceinamerica

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May 13, 2020

What did George Washington want for his country?

I recently saw an ad for some slogan t-shirts and one particular slogan caught my eye. It was a quote attributed to George Washington that I wasn’t familiar with:

George Washington

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What did George Washington want for his country?
What did George Washington want for his country?
George Washington

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Aug 23, 2018

What’s Right? What’s Left? What Works?

There have been many essays about problems with the old left vs. right political paradigm. I’d like to attempt a view from a higher altitude than usual and hope it might lead to some useful insights. In recent years I’ve begun to see many problems in terms of humankind’s tendency…

Economics

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What’s Right? What’s Left? What Works?
What’s Right? What’s Left? What Works?
Economics

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Mar 3, 2018

Eleanor

On July 23rd, 1926, a baby girl was born in the little town of Los Banos, California to Francis and Tillie McDonald. The addition of little Eleanor Lois made the McDonald family come out even, three boys and three girls: Roy, Lula, Buck, Jim, Molly Jean…

Family

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Eleanor
Eleanor
Family

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May 19, 2016

The Emerald City

It’s not every day that I connect Buddhism and L. Frank Baum, so I thought I would write this one down. The connection began recently when a friend posted this quote on Facebook: “What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life…

Buddhism

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The Emerald City
The Emerald City
Buddhism

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