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Jun.08.2013 Free Range The question of an afterlife was pretty much settled during the time we lived in San Jose, Calif. The year was approximately 1971 or ’72. It was a normal tract house. 1970’s facade. Lava rock. Juniper bushes. Inside, cylindrical lampshades in cream and gold hanging on...	May.12.2013 At Home With a Ghost - 48 Mom before polio (Those who are coming to this serialized story for the first time, you can read the complete opus to date by clicking here.) I opened the door and, as I braved the champaca fumes and tinkling wind chimes, I thought: fire the art director for crimes of cliché. It was way too...
Apr.02.2013 At Home With a Ghost - 47 BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT: Rose Chatfield-Taylor HER INTERVIEWER: Anna De Koven (Those who are coming to this serialized story for the first time, you can read the complete opus to date by clicking here.) Why not a medium? It should have been an obvious step long ago, when I was in my...	Mar.19.2013 At Home With a Ghost - 46 The adventurers in Paris (Those who are coming to this serialized story for the first time, you can read the complete opus to date by clicking here.) He met her at...
Feb.01.2013 At Home With a Ghost - 45 Grandpa as un-serious fop (Those who are coming to this serialized story for the first time, you can read the complete opus to date by clicking here.) I married for love at age...	Jan.07.2013 I've died and gone to heaven I’ve Died and gone to Heaven I have a gift bestowed to me and it is the ability that I have to talk to the other side! Some call it being psychic, but if it should have any label, I would rather that it be called 'my funny feelings' because that's what they are to me! They are mine and...
Dec.13.2012 At Home With a Ghost - 44 (Those who are coming to this serialized story for the first time, you can read the complete opus to date by clicking here.) Tom Hulce received the go-ahead to direct a workshop of my musical Sleeparound Town. Artistic director Andre Bishop gave his blessing, in his distinctive...	Oct.08.2012 At Home With a Ghost - 43 (Those who are coming to this serialized story for the first time, you can read the complete opus to date by clicking here.) When I was in my twenties and researching a book, I studied the dark art of fleecing men. This technique, and the con women who taught it to me, were the subjects of...
Sep.11.2012 At Home With a Ghost - 42 (Those who are coming to this serialized story for the first time, you can read the complete opus to date by clicking here.) After a year spent in the Third World, everything at home seemed strange: food, TV, supermarket, smells, weather, piano, and home itself, the studio on my...	Sep.11.2012 What I Learned While I Was Dead It wasn’t even a tragedy. In an instant, in 1974, I became a highway statistic. “Man On Dirt Bike Hit Head-on Dies On Operating Table” would have been the headline if I mattered. I died for nothing. Finish reading this post at www.tiliks.com.

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