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.
26 Nov 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I'm the one in the top right corner. To sum up my childhood in one word, I would pick the word ‘fortunate’. I was adopted four days after my birth into a middle-class family with three older sisters, thirteen, twelve and seven years older than me, s...
25 Nov 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I started posting my autobiography from the beginning of my twenty third year hitchhiking down the west coast from Toronto and leaving my academic career forever. I suppose I started there because that period was filled with colorful adventures. Bu...
24 Nov 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I've been thinking quite a bit about origins, our creation and our place in this universe. I approach the question mathematically, trying to reduce everything to the simplest terms, weeding out all superfluous elements, simplifying, so to speak, to...
24 Nov 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Sanita and Will 2005 in Niagara Falls Beauty is a dangerous, unpredictable gift. Sanita had it over me from the start. I was captivated by hers. We were unlike in every way, the most improbable and uncomplimentary two ever to become a couple. ...
23 Nov 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The Calypso. Two years later I took the time off work to fly out and sell my house in P.R. I’d made up my mind never to go back as things were prosperous in Canada and I had a pension to build up, already well started. So I resolved to finalize...
22 Nov 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
My father and Muriel visiting us in Puerto Rico. There’s only so much screaming a man can take and Cindy’s was shrill and loud and frequent. She had the most muscle toned and tanned body of any woman in Rincon from constant surfing and she was of...
21 Nov 2022 10 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The Foxhead after expansion. On the first morning back home I apathetically picked up our rag of a local paper, the ‘Niagara Falls Review’ and opened it to the small 'help wanted' section. There were maybe ten listings in a week, and almost all of...
20 Nov 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The San Juan gift shop. Our main job was to cover both side of the store for some forty feet back with what they call ‘slat-wall’ that glossy, white wood with horizontal black strips cut into it eight inches apart, into which you insert and slide all...
19 Nov 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I'm resuming my story in the fall of nineteen ninety eight, the second job Buddy drummed up for me after the Manhattan job, this one on the main drag of Hoboken, Washington street. I remember telling my Amtrak adventures to our client who’d bought th...
19 Nov 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
It’s Saturday. I have little to do, so I took the luxury of staying in bed an extra hour, letting my thoughts roam, and lines of poetry, many favorites over the many decades since my youth came to mind. A few brought a tear to my eye. It was a sad...
