The m16 is an air-cooled, gas-operated, magazine-fed, shoulder fired rifle. It was first fielded in 1962. At 8.8 ponds the M16 is light enough to be carried in any engagement. It has twenty-seven...
Sometimes there are situations in which you can be easily a winner. And you are ready for it mentally, physically or both. But instead of fighting you apologize and step back.
Why?
My mother and fathergrew up in the 1970's in Mt. Vernon ,New York. I always heard stories of how great things were, you know the typical "Back in the day" mess.High school sweethearts they were and they wanted nothing more than to be...
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
As nice as the Obama is,
as handsome und sexy
und ever-thing else about
his talking with speeches,
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I'm seven years old and my dad and I are looking at mummies. We're at Walter's Art Gallery in Baltimore Maryland. The mummies, their tombs are black and gold, burnt sienna. Inside, the remains of an ancient civilization. Tucked...
I was living in Odessa, TX, my hometown, at the time. I had been going through some rough times and had stayed early into the morning talking things out with a friend at his apartment. When I left, I stopped by a gas station to pick up some oil...
i am a psychotherapist and having wriiten 26 accounts from my personal and some professional
recollections of deaths of people i have known. i am 71 years of age and work two days a week.
If one of the recollections has...
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I am Mickey Mantle, switch-hitting slugger of the New York Yankees. Ripper of rawhides, launcher of long balls. Young boys idolize me...
In late January 2011 a student of mine brought a loaded handgun into my sophomore world history class. I’m thankful every single day that he kept the weapon in his backpack and had no intention of using it at school. By all...
Like many, I can safely say that my college years were some of the best years of my life. There were friends, obscure liberal arts classes, house shows, bars, cheap beer cans, marijuana, lectures on saving the environment and various sexual...
Greg’s father coached sports in the local schools. One summer day a group of us wanted a pickup baseball game and the guy who usually brought the bats and balls was not around. Greg said ‘I can get what we...
I'm rarely surprised to discover how my childhood classmates turned out on Facebook. Like, the geeky girl with the coke bottle glasses, who whittled wood during recess, is now into belly dancing. The sophisticated European...
When I was 8, I went to the mall, bought my first diary, came home, and wrote about “The Boy at the Mall.” We didn't talk, but we made eye contact, and it was as if time stopped and we entered another dimension, in...
