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.
18 Apr 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Norma It was on the last day of March that I picked Sanita up at the airport, mid-morning. It was a beautiful Spring day. We were in the best of moods seeing each other again and we were in my sports car. My original plan was to drive her back t...
18 Apr 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Consuelo four years later, living in Oregon, but not with Steve. “Monday afternoon Marge comes by and gives me a haircut and another party starts with her and her friend Andy joining us. Then dinner at Marge’s with Mart. and Andy, then I to B’s th...
17 Apr 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I’ve been reading my long and detailed journal for this period (the month of March 1986) with some pain and finally relief. It fills almost a hundred pages and describes in detail the self-inflicted crisis I put myself through at this time. It was...
17 Apr 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Jane Welsh Carlyle These dreams of finding an intelligent and pretty soulmate surfaced now because Sanita had given a big boost to my self-esteem, my being able to gain the affection of a beautiful member of the opposite sex. Before her I had no s...
16 Apr 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The last of my Bohemian days. Though we both had fun on this visit and Sanita was now looking forward to coming back at the end of March and moving in with me, I found this strange entry, the day I took her to the airport, still ambivalent abo...
16 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Datsun 240Z Sanita first arrived on January 30th. It was nighttime. I picked her up in S.F. and we drove straight to my apartment in Piedmont. In the next few days, she met many of my friends, along with a whirlwind of lines and partying, especial...
15 Apr 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Sanita in Mexico teaching a young girl how to smoke? She was a heavy smoker all her years with me. A week later, as we agreed, I drove her across that bridge to the airport, (Bruno coming along for the ride). She was to spend the month of March wi...
15 Apr 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
1986 “Jan. 2nd. 1986 9 p.m.: I just came back from my odyssey in Mexico, late last night. We partied with Jim, his girlfriend, Larry (Joel’s brother) at Louie’s’ till 3 a.m. drinking vodkas, laughing, and talking excitedly about our whirlwind pace...
14 Apr 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Another picture of me sightseeing. At a posh, ‘Las Vegas-style’ high-rise hotel in the capital Louie strode through the lobby ahead of me, walked up to the counter and asked for two adjoining rooms on the top floor and he got them, handing Sanita...
14 Apr 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
We drove hard that day, (as if we felt some silent, imaginary worry that Alex was pursuing) and by night reached the top of the central mountain range and one of the most beautiful cities I’ve ever seen, San Cristóbal de las Casas. We had a fine...
