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.
9 Nov 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Rincon again Waiting for the call Smoking crack together. Unsplash Our Caguas household was my one redemptive pleasure to the miseries and daily frustrations of work in the most ill-planned and badly scheduled mall ever. My opinion of Puerto R...
9 Nov 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Addison, an odd receptacle. Construction prints. Addison knew how to read prints better than anyone, from his New Jersey beginnings in the construction field, and his smarts, which no degree of crack abuse seemed to diminish. I remember one day a...
8 Nov 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Strange cohabitation. Cluster …uck. The second week into this project Sanita had left with Willy for Florida. The job was so problem plagued I had little time to think about them. I only drove back to Rincon one weekend in the next eight, expe...
7 Nov 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Mall Meltdown The Caguas Debacle. Now to the ‘Caguas’ debacle. The structure of the mall, the steel beamed, cement walled, Q-Deck rooved, shell of the building was supposed to be all ready by mid- July, so the contractors could begin their build...
6 Nov 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
False Dreams On the way to Mark’s house. But back to my story. About an hour after Laura left that Saturday morning I was at the top of the hill looking under the hood of my clunker car, (I think I purchased it from a local for three hundred dolla...
5 Nov 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
A credo for tough times ahead. Over the last forty years, after attaining the finest Classical education America had to offer, and many years given over entirely to reading and travels and journals, free from work or other worldly distractions...
4 Nov 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Short lived pleasures. Kim as Willy’s mother for a minute. One setback in my personal life, just before the Caguas mall, was that Victor told me I had to return the Vitara. It was finally repo’d. It was one of his raffle cars before our partners...
3 Nov 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The Bamboo house. One outer side of Joe’s large bamboo house. Laura and her husband Joe were also some of my closest friends in Rincon. Laura was probably Sanita’s closest friend, partly due to ride-sharing Sammy and Will to the Seso school, (the...
2 Nov 2022 10 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
In the following segments of my autobiography, describing what I must admit were easily my darkest days, some of my readers might consider me an idiot to be so blatantly honest and a fool for displaying myself so nakedly. I cut myself, and sometimes...
1 Nov 2022 5 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
Star-crossed again. Lost. Kim had a few similarities to Sanita’s troubled soul but on a much lesser scale. First of all I could always reason with her and she understood and enjoyed talking with me. She told me her boyfriend sometimes hit her, the...
