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.
23 Feb 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Sure enough, within an hour of reaching the coast and heading south he discerned a campfire and a cottage ahead. It was a wooden shack. An old, bearded fisherman and his quiet, middle-aged, ministering son sat on a log in front of it...
22 Feb 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Now I enter the final stage of our union, or rather ‘dissolution’. “August 13th Sat. 6:30 A.M. Up all night after another coke party at Brigitte and Ed’s. (just Dale and I were there. They were out of town and lent us the house again). Now it’s ov...
22 Feb 2023 7 minute read 2 comments Diomedes
PROLOGUE I wrote this book twenty five years ago in Seattle, where I lived with my wife and child and worked as a self-employed and often unemployed electrician. That I publish it now, after all these years may seem odd, but the ability to write...
21 Feb 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I wish the record of those past days were longer. It’s such a priceless treasure, and amazing in some of its details, like Steve pounding his fist on the dashboard as he drove me home, after the best twenty-four hour long party either of us had ev...
21 Feb 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
My diary continues: “I wake up with a terrible hangover, 8 a.m., deathly ill. No work. I visit my car, getting a ride from Jim and I decide to keep it. Dinner at ‘La Pena’ again with Dale. We plan a walk but step into her place at 9 p.m. and by ch...
20 Feb 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Dale “Next Wednesday, after a hard day of work at a restaurant in San Jose, Bones and I bounce back into the Plough at seven p.m.. Dale is sitting at a table with Maggie and her child (a little girl, four years old) and two men. She comes to the b...
20 Feb 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I'm returning to my autobiography where I left off some twenty days ago. I'll provide a link to the last posting of it. The year is 1983 when I was twenty eight. I'm really old. But the good thing about recounting your past, it makes you feel y...
19 Feb 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
As we sped away I asked Sandy some questions. She was sitting quietly between the two women and happy we were taking her away. “You said something about flying machines that killed your parents four years ago. Do you mean drones? Could you tell...
18 Feb 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Mary came in. “They’re asking us to dress warm and come to the orchard and pick fruit this morning. Then this afternoon we women will be knitting and you and Rich can help mending a fence for the cows”. “I’m not dressing up in black and I’ll pic...
17 Feb 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Sandy I awoke with Mary at my side in her underwear. Rich and Tina were gone. We looked out the window and saw them in the water by a dock, a hundred feet from us, cavorting and splashing each other and naked. We decided to join them for a bath...
