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Alan Foster

Alan Foster
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the Cafe

Life: One Bar at a Time

We’ve all seen the bar urchin enough to know the trope. Slow moving. Forlorn. Pock-marked and big nosed, with rosy cheeks and sparse facial…

Feb 8, 2021

Life: One Bar at a Time

Feb 8, 2021

Alan Foster
in
the Cafe

Life: One Christmas at a Time

‘The central question of a warriors training is not how to avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.’ We are all…

Jan 2, 2021

Life: One Christmas at a Time

Jan 2, 2021

Alan Foster

Tales Through Time: The African in Europe

I did not see my first white until I was half-way to becoming a man. Now I am fighting his wars for him.

Aug 3, 2020

Tales Through Time: The African in Europe

Aug 3, 2020

Alan Foster
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Literally Literary

Tales Through Time: The African in Europe

I did not see my first white until I was half-way to becoming a man. Now I am fighting his wars for him.

Jun 5, 2020

Tales Through Time: The African in Europe

Jun 5, 2020

Alan Foster
in
Literally Literary

Life: One Song at a Time

We’ve been on the run

Jun 4, 2020

Life: One Song at a Time

Jun 4, 2020

Alan Foster
in
Literally Literary

Tales Through Time: The Boy in the Market

Sleep comes lightly in the summer. It is too hot. The night is still. It settles in, like an unseen blanket. Inside, it’s too hot. It…

Mar 31, 2020

Tales Through Time: The Boy in the Market

Mar 31, 2020

Alan Foster
in
Literally Literary

The Q

‘Happy Birthday!’ a chorus of voices shouts.

Mar 29, 2020

The Q

Mar 29, 2020

Alan Foster
in
the Cafe

Divorce in the Time of Corona

As the world comes to the realization that bad things can, and do, happen from time to time, on both small and large scales I find myself…

Mar 28, 2020

Divorce in the Time of Corona

Mar 28, 2020

Alan Foster
in
Literally Literary

The Prices of Sacrifice

The stillness of early morning fights against the break of day. Our small boat bobs across the laconic water. I squint as the first beams…

Mar 18, 2020

The Prices of Sacrifice

Mar 18, 2020

Alan Foster
in
the Cafe

Life: One Semester at a Time

The astrophysicist Carlo Rovelli claims that time is, at it’s heart, nothing more than a measure of entropy, or a systems tendency toward…

Dec 3, 2019

Dec 3, 2019

Alan Foster

Alan Foster

Father, Husband, and ‘Teacher’ trying and failing, to not take life too seriously. Visit www.thealanfoster.com to get updates about longer works.

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