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Douglas Mastriano: the Unexpurgated Bio of a Dangerous Man— Part One

Imagine waking up one morning and finding out your cousin, the fat little kid who scratched the shit out of your face when he was three and…

Nov 6, 2022

Douglas Mastriano: the Unexpurgated Bio of a Dangerous Man— Part One

Nov 6, 2022

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Always Be Busy: Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) and the Inability to Settle Down

One of my less endearing traits thoughout my life has been my inability to Settle Down — as in stay in one place or concentrate or not want…

Mar 20, 2018

Always Be Busy: Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) and the Inability to Settle Down

Mar 20, 2018

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What Everyone Gets Wrong about the Hampshire College Flag Burning Incident and Where We Go From…

This morning, I woke up to find that an impotent and immature act of protest at a small New England college a few towns away, and a…

Nov 28, 2016

Nov 28, 2016

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Fat Foodies and Skinny Yogis

Lifestyle mags for middle-agers are really kind of boring.

May 24, 2016

Fat Foodies and Skinny Yogis

May 24, 2016

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Earworms

Nobody really knows how they happen. You wake up in the morning after some weird dream and there it is: a song from the 70s that you…

Oct 13, 2015

Earworms

Oct 13, 2015

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On My Nightstand — Mid-August Edition Part 1: “Las Vegas Then and Now”

The first thing you might notice is that, again, there are two books on my night stand. Un-usually, I am reading two books at the moment…

Aug 22, 2015

On My Nightstand — Mid-August Edition Part 1: “Las Vegas Then and Now”

Aug 22, 2015

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A Grown-Up Reads “On The Road”. . .

was published on Midcentury Modern. You can go there to read it

Aug 3, 2015

Aug 3, 2015

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Dream Men

The Bad Boy fantasy doesn’t go away. It just gets more interesting.

Aug 1, 2015

Dream Men

Aug 1, 2015

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A Grown-Up Reads ‘On the Road’

As a young woman, I never read Kerouac’s “On the Road” — although it’s a book that most august male academics believe every young person…

Jul 25, 2015

A Grown-Up Reads ‘On the Road’

Jul 25, 2015

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Baby Busters

The Younger Siblings You Don’t Know at All

Jun 9, 2015

Baby Busters

Jun 9, 2015

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tishgrier

Writer, reporter @ Father, Son and USA. Former Army kid. Collector of memories, keeper of flame, student of Religion in America..

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