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Point of View Exercise – Travel Memoir (of 2014, written in 2020)

The man, pausing momentarily in uncertainty on Platform #3, makes a sudden turn as if kicked into gear. He marches down the stairs. He banks around a local man and his aged wife. The old man drags luggage up the ramp running alongside the stairs as the wife looks on in the silent judgment of a person who both requires someone’s assistance and one who doesn’t approve of the manner in which the assistance is being rendered. Continue reading

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Bildung ist Alles (Education is everything)

Before I left the states for Germany, I spent a night in a hostel in Queens. After getting settled in my dorm room, I visited the patio for what turned out to be a tremendous view of Manhattan. After sunset, … Continue reading

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