Category: Nostalgia
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Recovery

One of my hobbies of late is tracking down books, music, or films from my distant past that I barely remember but can’t quite forget. For example, in third grade a guy came and spoke to our class about the joys and benefits of reading. One kid asked, “So what are YOU reading?” and he…
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The Go-Gos Farewell Tour

As maybe three people in this world know, I’m working on a screenplay. Ryan Bailey is encouraging me to write it as a novel first, but as I’m a man of few words, that’s proving to be a task. This is beside the point. I’m writing a story set in 1988. And as I’ve been…
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Mystery Solved

Yesterday at Kroger, a song on the radio brought me to a halt. I stood by the ice cream frozen, thinking, waiting, straining to confirm the recollection. I knew I was finally on the verge of solving a 28-year-old mystery: the artist and title of a song I used to hear on the radio in…