My New Year’s Revelation (Definitely Not a Resolution): A Baby Boomer Mea Culpa

Photo by Steve Buss circa early 80s   Now that I’m all grown up and realize that I want to be a writer I’ve taken to keeping a notebook at my bedside to record the thoughts I wake up to. Freud taught this, as part of his dream analysis. I used to do the same

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Post Midlife Musings on the Purpose of the Past

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”   -Henry Ford   Hard to argue with, isn’t it? I think so, so I stopped trying. But not after decades of doing what I had always done, which was work for other people, at the place of their choosing, when

And So It Begins

It’s 1960, and I am born. No experience. Call me Stupit. I’ve worked all my life for other people. It’s 2015, and I have nothing to show for it. Except for my kids, which have nothing to do with working for other people – of being a cog in someone else’s machine. The one thing

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The Crazy Shepherd Years

First Issue | The Crazy Shepherd The original Crazy Shepherd editors: Karen Gerrity, Petr Kotz, Jim McCarter, Bill Lueders and myself (seated). "Holy the lone juggernaut! Holy the vast lamb of the middle class! Holy the crazy shepherds of rebellion..."  Allen Ginsberg, "Footnote to Howl" (1955) In May of 1982 the first issue of The Crazy

Ouch! H-o-i-p-e-e-s!

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Posse Comitatus: Armed for woodland stand.

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Soul Story: There and back again

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Copsn’dogsn’badasssssnarls

The Crazy Shepherd Years | 1984     Click here to view the PDF file.    

1984 – Pragmatism in a Modern Epic

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Just about an Interview

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