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Sep.14.2012
May is always a bittersweet month. Spring grows full and lush. Buds swell, then burst. Summer rushes into the landscape like a flood, while the freshness and hope of May wash away.
On one late May afternoon, during a run on a favorite loop that followed the course of a national wild and...
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Sep.14.2012
May is always a bittersweet month. Spring grows full and lush. Buds swell, then burst. Summer rushes into the landscape like a flood, while the freshness and hope of May wash away.
On one late May afternoon, during a run on a favorite loop that followed the course of a national wild and...
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Sep.04.2012
I can feel my skin, loosening itself, releasing the old scripts, releasing what is not working and plunging in as though it were the first day of my birth. I am thinking of an old friend—may he rest in peace—an old friend whose passion was snakes. He was a snake breeder.
And it is now that I think...
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Jun.20.2012
I’ve encountered many interesting animals, reptiles and birds, living in my rural area. However, I thought we all knew our place, a balancing act to live in harmony. But lately things have changed. During the night a phantom critter, or critters, have been invading my vegetable...
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Mar.05.2012
Whenever I leave for Africa I am always asked, “Aren’t you afraid?”
“Of what?”
“Snakes. Alligators. Spiders. Lions.”
“Well,” I usually reply, “There are no alligators in Africa. Only crocodiles.”
“So crocodiles, whatever.”
I have a healthy respect for crocodiles....
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Feb.22.2012
(Those who are coming to this serialized story for the first time, you can read the complete opus to date by clicking here.)
In the previous post, I wrote about the snake left on my doorstep. I was sure my grandfather-in-spirit had placed it there. I realized that one of the songs he’d “channeled”...
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Feb.13.2012
(Those who are coming to this serialized story for the first time, you can read the complete opus to date by clicking here.)
“Books, films, a musical – wow!” exclaimed People magazine about me in 1978. I had become enough of a personage to be a People, with the paperback version of my novel...
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Apr.08.2011
Today I have had my Horror Novella,Archaeology 501/The Field Trip "Second Edition" posted up available for sale @2.99 a copy, on both Amazon/Kindle and Smashwords.com. This version is some 3000 words longer and better edited. In my estimation it is a better "Thriller" "...
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May.27.2010
According to the Tibetans, today is Buddha’s birthday. A prince with everything in the world, he set off on a quest to discover the truth of life. I’m remembering a mindfulness adventure I had this week, fifteen years ago:
Bornean Buddha by A.Ashman
In Borneo, I felt bored and restless at a luxe...
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Dec.18.2008
This happened 13 days shy of 3 years ago…but who’s counting????I won this Red Hat by largely losing a drinking contest in a nightclub in Baotou, in the Inner Mongolian territories of China. And there’s irony of me being in a drinking contest – I know that I do 3 things really well:
I play a mean...
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