On the Brink in an NYC ER
You’ve surely heard about the video of Esmin Green falling facedown on the floor of Brooklyn’s Kings County Hospital emergency ...
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A Ticket to Ride, Part Two: The Cast
As our government bails out loose mortgage bankers for getting in bed with anyone who could pinch the pen and ...
As our government bails out loose mortgage bankers for getting in bed with anyone who could pinch the pen and ...
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A Ticket to Ride
The ticket agent's shirt was wrinkled, sleeves rolled, with the collar wide open around his thick and sweating neck; his ...
The ticket agent's shirt was wrinkled, sleeves rolled, with the collar wide open around his thick and sweating neck; his ...
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Workin' Man
With 30 40-pound bags of concrete in the back of my little truck, I was nearly doing a wheelie on ...
With 30 40-pound bags of concrete in the back of my little truck, I was nearly doing a wheelie on ...
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On the Trail
I’m only a few hours home from a 100-mile Appalachian Trail hike. My tent, sleeping bag, backpack and hammock are ...
I’m only a few hours home from a 100-mile Appalachian Trail hike. My tent, sleeping bag, backpack and hammock are ...
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The Link to the World
For now, I’ll call her T, and this is how I met her:My buddy Ernesto and I were ...
For now, I’ll call her T, and this is how I met her:My buddy Ernesto and I were ...
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Good enough for me
Jimmy Morrow’s church service opened like an Appalachian blue grass show: There was a guitar, a tambourine, clapping hands and ...
Jimmy Morrow’s church service opened like an Appalachian blue grass show: There was a guitar, a tambourine, clapping hands and ...
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Get a rope, part II
These things, don’t they always fall out this way? I hem-hawed around Jetta’s apartment all morning, muttering something like, “How’d ...
These things, don’t they always fall out this way? I hem-hawed around Jetta’s apartment all morning, muttering something like, “How’d ...
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Get a rope
"Hey," I heard someone holler. "Get away from my Jeep!"I stood up from the passenger doorway of my ...
"Hey," I heard someone holler. "Get away from my Jeep!"I stood up from the passenger doorway of my ...
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Johnny Cash, Wilco, The Ryman
There's that picture of Johnny Cash I love: He's leaning over his hip-hung guitar, his middle finger raised and close-up ...
There's that picture of Johnny Cash I love: He's leaning over his hip-hung guitar, his middle finger raised and close-up ...
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