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Cat People vs. Dog People

Do People Reflect their Pets?

5 min readApr 25, 2024

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Cat People vs. Dog People

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Melcarriere

Accused of “Clap and Run!”

A Medium Courtroom Drama

7 min readFeb 15, 2024

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Accused of “Clap and Run!”

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Melcarriere

The Medium “Follow me I’ll Follow Back” Fable

Rethinking my Medium Followers Strategy

5 min readDec 13, 2023

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The Medium “Follow me I’ll Follow Back” Fable

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The Postal Pub

Malicious Compliance in the Post Office and Beyond

Malicious Compliance — what is it, exactly?

5 min read3 days ago

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Malicious Compliance in the Post Office and Beyond

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Calluses on my Feet, Calluses on my Soul

This is not a love poem. Though the title does have a rather poetic ring, what’s left at the end is a rather disgusting, bloody bathtub…

5 min read5 days ago

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Calluses on my Feet, Calluses on my Soul

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The Postal Pub

The Death of the LLV?

Should I prepare the eulogy?

5 min readJun 12, 2024

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The Death of the LLV?

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Dead or Alive

The Perils of Oldfartism

Or: Watch your Wallet

6 min readJun 10, 2024

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The Perils of Oldfartism

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What is Your Writing Burnt Offering ?

May Writing Report and 2023–2024 Year in Review

6 min readJun 4, 2024

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What is Your Writing Burnt Offering ?

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Beyond the Scoreboard

How Big Man Bill Walton Made Me Feel Bigger

Shedding a tear for a departed friend

5 min readJun 2, 2024

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Big Bill Walton’s personality was as big as his big man basketball skills.

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Apology Poem Number One — In Poetry Prison, Undone

I’ve finally exhausted my appeals, and accepted the reality that I better get busy and start serving my sentence, if I ever want to…

4 min readMay 30, 2024

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Apology Poem Number One — In Poetry Prison, Undone

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Melcarriere

Melcarriere

Mel Carriere is a writer/mailman (in no particular order), currently exiled to Colorado, where he pines in the pines for the palms of his old California home.

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