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The Emperor of Japan
The Emperor of Japan When I worked for the IRS, I loved being selected for short work details to our National Office in Washington D.C. On one such detail, in June 1994, I was working in D.C. at the IRS building at 1111 Constitution Ave. And one afternoon, instead of just leaving by the side...
The Impressionist & Post-Impressionist Tour – Non-Fiction Short Story Excerpt
View from the Subway Car Leaving the Brooklyn Bridge Station And, as in fleeting moments such as this, my camera, still around my neck but achingly turned off and not in my hands, does not capture the sight of the middle-age black man, too well-dressed to be identified immediately as homeless, but...
An Image From The 2016 Election
An Image from the 2016 Election – November 2016 A man described to me how his son, the day after the election, told him that a friend, a boy in his 5th grade class, was crying at school. The father knew this friend and knew why he was crying. His son’s friend was Muslim. Smiling...
Larry of the Sneakers – Non-Fiction Short Story Excerpt
Larry of the Sneakers, the Whitest of White & The Great Walls Around Me, a Mile High and Two Miles Wide It was around Christmas, and I was home from college for the holidays when my father told me that Larry had been shot and killed. When my dad told me this, he looked down, silent, seeing...
Good Signs – Sunday Message – Three Photos Attached – The First One is of the Sun Beginning to Set with the Air Much Cleaner of the Smoke
Good Signs - Sunday Message - Three Photos Attached - The First One is of the Sun Beginning to Set with the Air Much Cleaner of the Smoke *** Second Grandson, this is your Sunday message, and as you can see I have attached three photos, the first one is of the sun beginning to set with the air now...