I am educated in the Western Classical Tradition, B.A. from U.C. Berkeley in Latin and Greek, English major, one year at U. of Toronto, studied under Alain Renoir and Northrop Frye, read most classics full time for many years after university in French, English, Latin and Greek to the modern day. I am interested in the near future of technology, what changes it imposes upon our heritage and character as humans. Short stories and Essays are my medium.
27 Apr 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Hiram We did have two other occasional visitors, my old friends. The first, Chuck, now living in Santa Cruz, would drop by at rare times and his visits would usually last about five minutes, because he was always in a miserable mood, complaining a...
26 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Santa Cruz The joy of motherhood. Pregnancy and reading “ Jan 15th Thursday 2 a.m. We’ve been in S.C. now one week, looking for a lodging from a motel room. Arrived last Wednesday eve., high and frantic, having left Berkeley in our mobile home, a...
26 Apr 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Monte Carlo When the weather turned nasty in early December, we took a train to Nice where it was like summer again, the days beach worthy. We met a British couple our age and in love just like us so we spent time with them, one evening going to t...
25 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
A park in Paris These two months were our honeymoon, the happiest days of our relationship. One night Sanita matched me glass for glass at dinner. This was unusual for her, (usually drinking one glass of wine to my six). She told me it had somethi...
24 Apr 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
One of the two pictures Sanita took on our three month trip to Europe. Flying into Paris we asked a taxi driver for a hotel. He took us to a rather expensive one near the Louvre. It was morning and they had no rooms till later and told us to jus...
23 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Sanita And I and Amaris, with her usual pensive face. But back to my story. In August I took Sanita, Norma and the kids on a real vacation, a two-week trip East, three weeks for Norma and her children. She’d never had the money for any vacation...
22 Apr 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Alfred North Whitehead I should preface this sudden change in my life by noting that my journals themselves reflect the shift. I settled down. My wildest days were over and adventures became rarer, so my old notebooks slowly took on a more sedat...
21 Apr 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
‘M’ met a sadder fate while I was in Europe. When I first met him he was single, happy but poor, ‘C’s only friend, glad to meet me and eager to help in every way when we went into business, talkative and overflowing in enthusiasm when some money s...
20 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Our modest rental in Santa Cruz and Sanita pregnant In late April of 1986, Jim H. and Sanita and I took the ten-day trip to Texas to meet Sanita’s family. First her mother and sister Charmaine, her nice husband Tom and their two daughters aged one...
19 Apr 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
At the beach, Point Reyes, near Fairfax with Ross and Norma and Amaris, Sanita taking the picture. I was now entering a much saner and happier period in my life, in a beautiful and peaceful place, in love with Sanita, half our time taking trips to...
