The orange barrel was coming on about half an hour after Tom, J.B. and I dropped. Things were getting shimmery around the room.
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Election 2020 – Adventures in Voting
Voting in absentia by Frank C. Siraguso July 28, 2020 The Missouri primary election is Tuesday, August 4, 2020. Today we, Molly Margaret and I, went to the Kansas City Board of…
1959
Frank C. Siraguso Photo by Bud Simpson It was a week past Christmas. Mom and I had walked the half block up the street to my grandparents, my mom’s parents, for New…
A Northeast Christmas Scene
We had just set the Christmas tree in the flimsy, three-legged, red-and-green metal stand, and tightened the three bolts to hold it. This was Christmas of ’69 or ’70. I was still…
California Rake
It was during that summer of 1984, while I was living in Long Beach, California, that I first saw them. The two guys cutting the grass in the tiny front yard of…
Vote, Don’t Drop
The Story of Dave and the Fish Church The Temptation of Saint Anthony–Hieronymous Bosch (or follower), c. 1500–1525 Election 2016 is proving to be weirder than any in living memory. I am…
Nixon resigns – 40 years ago today
I remember exactly where I was Thursday, August 8, 1974, the night Richard Nixon announced his impending resignation. I and a friend were glued to the radio in his car, parked outside…