Tag Archive: personal

Feb
04

Cash Call

Sixteen months ago, I wrote a story. It was a nice little story, with some good quotes from the main player. I sold it to a provincial paper. I posted the story on my website. Thanks to the vagaries of …

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Jan
21

News Business

We lie. We don’t always mean to, but we do. We’re in a hurry, overworked, and just don’t care any more. Now and then, we have our own agendas, buy that’s for the names, the guys you recognize from chat …

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Jul
20

July 20, 1969

I was four years old. Being four, I went to bed early, probably around 7pm, having spent a full day exhausting myself with te games four years olds fill their days with during the long summers. It wasn’t exactly the …

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Sep
13

Fighting Back

I haven’t a clue what happened in the world today. I picked up a copy of the Irish Times to check the jobs listings in just case there was anything interesting going, but apart from Doonesbury, I didn’t read a …

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