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1 Dec 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I studied integration in high school math classes. My friend Rich studied disintegration, physical and mental, with a steady and in many ways elegant journey into alcoholism and drug abuse. He exuded charisma. He had a charm about him even when fa...
30 Nov 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
This reminds of a sight my parents and I were somewhat shocked to see when we first arrived in the Bay area. It was a warm Sunday in late 1967 and my parents thought it would be nice to pay a visit to Golden Gate Park, which they’d heard so much...
29 Nov 2022 6 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
The one rule my father laid down was that I was never allowed to leave the house after dinner, except on weekends. So I went to my room to amuse myself with my many hobbies. The only T.V. was in the family room, and my habit from France still pr...
28 Nov 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
In the fall of 1967 my father was again promoted and transferred, this time to San Francisco, to be assistant manager of their very large machine shop there. He flew out and purchased a house, while my mother and me packed up. The plan was for a...
27 Nov 2022 6 minute read 1 comment Diomedes
My father was brilliant in buying me things (I won’t call them toys) that captured my imagination. The first was a Meccano set with little nuts and bolts, to build model cars and cranes and Ferris wheels. It even had a motor to drive them. I spe...
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 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...
