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General Interest Articles

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About This Painting

Thieves usually steal what is valuable, but in this case, the theft provided the value.

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Throwing Down the Gauntlet

What is it about people and characters who wear only a single glove?

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The Road Back

The terrain had changed. How about my old friend?

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The End at Danbury High

It might not have gone down in the annals of rock history, but that one concert showed just how outrageous The Doors could be.

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Driving Us Crazy

Ruminations on the aging of information in the information age.

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Busted!

I don't know if Clay came up with the idea to hitchhike to visit Ditto, or if I did, but neither of us expected a police party to greet us.

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Chaco Canyon

Its strangeness speaks in a voice too hushed to comprehend about the mysteries of the people who built the monumental structures strewn about this dry landscape.

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The Oklahoma Kid Meets Frankenstein

I guess it's all Peter Cushing's fault that I am who I am today.

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Seeking the Oracle

An in-depth examination of the history of the I-Ching.

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The Plaquemine Ferry

Sometimes passages over the impassable become the most important part of the journey.

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Notes from Abroad

I will be coming back to Tejas in a week or so. Can't hack it here. I think I have finally gotten over the thing I had that made me want to be somewhere where nobody else was.

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Spring Break 1969

Crazy Glenn wanted me to hitchhike to California with him. We were eighteen and it was spring 1969, so it seemed like the thing to do.

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The 61st Minute

The man across the grassy clearing looked innocent enough, but I knew that the sparse woods he'd come from very likely held at least one of his friends. Probably with the .30-30 Winchester aimed right at me.

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Treasures of the Andes

Peter Yenne has spent the last decade and a half hunting silver treasure in the Andes Mountains, and when he strikes a rich deposit—often in some dusty attic corner or a dirty, disused shed—it's pure gold.

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Illegal Alien Checkpoint

As I come out of the west, the first warning is a speed zone sign where no town ever thought to be.

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Guadalupe Thoughts

On the occasion of getting sick while camping in the Guadalupe Mountains.

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In the Here and Now

I have lived in the present from time to time, and I can tell you that it is much over-rated.

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The I-Ching: A Biography

A look at the history of the I-Ching.

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