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…
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1959
Frank C. SiragusoPhoto 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 Year’s…
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
Dave and the Fish Church Election 2016 is proving to be weirder than any in living memory. I am not impartial, fair or balanced about the outcome. I’m for Hillary, not Trump….
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…
Piss on ’em
Part of me thinks there’s too much hand-wringing about the four U.S. Marines pissing on dead Afghani fighters. It’s not like they dragged them behind their humvees, like the Somalis dragged and…