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FROM THE SKY CAVE - MY TELESCOPE OF MEMORYFORBIDDEN WHISKERS....A new stre manager decided to get tough - on kitties.2022-05-1304 minFROM THE SKY CAVE - MY TELESCOPE OF MEMORYRepairs in your house can turn your world upside down. Or - they can be a chance to do things - different..You can choose. Always.2022-04-2004 minFROM THE SKY CAVE - MY TELESCOPE OF MEMORY'It's Too Late, Baby"...or, THE NEXT STEP....Can you teach an old dog new tricks? Methinks you CAN...2022-04-0904 minFROM THE SKY CAVE - MY TELESCOPE OF MEMORY'It's Too Late, Baby", or THE NEXT STEP....Part 1Can you teach an old dog new tricks? Well, this old dog thinks so...2022-04-0804 minFROM THE SKY CAVE - MY TELESCOPE OF MEMORYWho's them guys outside my window??Coolness can be found anywhere. And I do mean - ANYWHERE..2022-03-1603 minFROM THE SKY CAVE - MY TELESCOPE OF MEMORYThanksgiving Dressing - from CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL: 'My Crazy Family" (publ. 2018)And then there was the time Mom added a most unusual ingredient to the turkey..2021-11-2104 minFROM THE SKY CAVE - MY TELESCOPE OF MEMORYTHANKSGIVING DRESSING - from Chicken Soup for The Soul (My Crazy Family, publ. 2018)..and then, there was that holiday meal where Mother added a practical, but most unusual ingredient..?2021-11-2104 min
FROM THE SKY CAVE - MY TELESCOPE OF MEMORYScram, you Luddite!When my old cellphone breathed its last, my first thought was 'dammit.." Then I got still, and imagined something different.2021-05-0104 minFROM THE SKY CAVE - MY TELESCOPE OF MEMORYFROM THE SKY CAVE - A TELESCOPE OF MEMORY - City Ditties - The Passing of Philip (conclusion)...I will always wonder, but never know for certain: what if Earle had chosen another way to 'face the world'..what would he have been like? Still the old movie buff? Still the drinker? Still a man denying his real self... RIP my friend. You were loved.2020-09-2802 minFROM THE SKY CAVE - MY TELESCOPE OF MEMORYCITY DITTIES - The Passing of Philip - (Part 4)I think of Philip often, and with a fond kind of sadness. Imagining him sitting alone, in a cloud of cigarette smoke, his cat Ninotchka curled up next to him on the sofa. Old movies were his favorite companions. The screen never judged - never talked back. He lived his own old film, on the real life screen.2020-09-2704 minFROM THE SKY CAVE - MY TELESCOPE OF MEMORYCITY DITTIES - The Passing of Philip - (Part 3)Just imagine the energy Philip must have needed, to keep that false face securely in place over all the years? Maybe it was made easier to bear, the pain softened, somehow blunted by the copious amounts of vodka and cigarettes he consumed throughout his life.2020-09-2604 minFROM THE SKY CAVE - MY TELESCOPE OF MEMORYFROM THE SKY CAVE - A TELESCOPE OF MEMORY - City Ditties/The Passing of Philip. (Part 2)Philip was indeed a remnant from a bygone time. A completely self-created man. His secret life before he came to New York could not have been more different. Yet we all accepted the person he invented; as the real Philip. 2020-09-2604 minFROM THE SKY CAVE - MY TELESCOPE OF MEMORYCITY DITTIES - The Passing of Philip (Part 1)He was born Earle Lavalle Morton Drew, in late 1920's Richmond. He didn't like the name. He was also born a quadroon. He didn't like that, either. As a young man, he left his home and traveled North. Reinventing himself. With a new life, and new name. Along the way, he also became a white man.2020-09-2604 minFROM THE SKY CAVE - MY TELESCOPE OF MEMORYFROM THE SKY CAVE - A TELESCOPE OF MEMORYAt 72, with tales to tell of many lives lived, as I craft and invent this current one in New Orleans....2020-09-2503 min