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Family of Faux
Highlights and Lowlights of a Prosaic Life – Set the way-back machine to 1956. Not that you would care, but come with me on a self-guided and mostly…
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The Game of Life
I’ve always loved games. Ball games, board games, guessing games, games of all kinds. As a card-carrying AARP member I still like to play games as long…
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Dwarf Wrestling
Brimming with confidence after the fall cross-country campaign but mindful of not overplaying my hand – pride cometh before a fall and all that – I…
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The Hairless Harrier
I started my freshman year at Lincoln High School in the fall of 1970 and by that time my pituitary gland had been on sabbatical for over three years. I…
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My Father's Day
As you know by now, my father was rigidly opposed to having a good time. He lost his own father at a young age, was raised by a domineering and…
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Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy
One of the many iron-clad rules my father laid down in the Stromquist household was that my sister and I were to become cultured adults prior to…
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The Atomic Bomb
From 1963 to 1970 I attended Ainsworth Grade School high in the rarefied air of Portland’s West Hills. This venerable ivied institution was nestled…
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