British Summer Time I confess I’m rather chauvinistic about New York. The city’s been my home pretty much all my life and I love the hustle and bustle, the theater, the 24/7 vibe, the people-watching, and I don’t even mind the noise and the traffic. Don’t get me wrong, I love to travel and…
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Suprise Me
British Summer Time
Prompted By Changing Times
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British Summer Time I confess I’m rather chauvinistic about New York. The city’s been my home pretty much all my life and I love the hustle and bustle, the theater, the 24/7 vibe, the people-watching, and I don’t even mind the noise and the traffic. Don’t get me wrong, I love to travel and…
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Take It To The Limit
Prompted By Banned Books
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I'm not sure I've ever encountered any banned books, but if I had, I would have made a point of reading them.
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A Walk on the Beach
Prompted By Rites of Passage
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I don’t know whether any grains of sand got into my toes, but a new idea entered my head. It was time to leave the marriage behind.
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Swimming Through Treacle
Prompted By Lost in Translation
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Hanging Chad
Prompted By Ghosts of Elections Past
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How would the world be different if Gore had won that election? Alternative histories are notoriously difficult to predict.
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Stanley Mouse and the little white pill
Prompted By Pills
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I wrote this piece in 2016 for the Retro prompt Altered States. I hope you enjoy this '60s tale of a little white pill. — CD
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Holidays Past and Now, Memories of Italian Songs
Prompted By Pandemic Holidays
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Each year, everyone complained that we were not spending enough time with them.
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First Sale
Prompted By The First Time
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I joined Advanced Systems, Inc. in mid-April, 1978. It began with a two week training program in Elk Grove Village, IL, where the company was headquartered. I sold follow-on contracts for video training and ancillary products to the data processing industry to existing clients (this was so long ago, it wasn’t called IT yet). Some…
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A brief audible history
Prompted By What We Listened To
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Back in the early days of the Internet, I wrote for a short-lived interactive startup in Santa Monica. I was a practicing jazz musician at the time, so of course I needed the money. Before the interactive outfit folded I happily researched and wrote a brief musical history of Mozart, a jazz jukebox, a classical…
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Some bunch of kids, huh?
Prompted By Group Photos
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I especially like this photo of my aunt because it captures her sweetness.
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