| Articles by Gene Myers |
1. COVID CHRISTMAS UN-CHEER
December 18, 2020
Well, here I am listening to seasonal songs courtesy of that sultry-voiced virtual femme fatale from Amazon Echo. This while sucking down an Old Fashioned. Her name is Alexa. I requested she send me a provocative photo of herself, but she declined unless, that is, I purchase a certain APP. I also as...
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2. SOCIETY, MEDICINE & MALPRACTICE?
October 27, 2020
In these days of travail, obesity, and cheap wine, I’ve concluded that society has become brain-numbed and seems to accept lying and thievery as standard operating procedure—no big deal, I mean, everybody does it except, of course, our favorite politicians. Oh no, it’s always the other guy; the othe...
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3. YEEOUCH!!!
August 31, 2020
A day last week, I played tennis in the morning, hustled home, cleaned up, and joined a four-way ZOOM teleconference call for an hour and a half. About 30 minutes of the call was actually value-added; the remaining time dedicated to trouble-shooting technical issues on one end of the telecon or off-...
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4. AN AVIATOR'S FINAL FLIGHT
July 13, 2020
I’ve got to tell you, folks, I’m becoming depressed and weary from writing these kinds of articles, but at my age I don’t see the trend abating. Initially, it was my first college friend and fraternity brother, Mike Glossinger, then a lifelong friend from primary school, Larry Livingston. There are ...
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5. COVID-19: A Micro Godzilla
April 30, 2020
COVID-19, certainly not to be taken lightly, has interrupted life as we know it including the international economy and other things interesting like visiting relatives, eating out, and other forms of socializing. Typical of people in crisis we’ve developed a herd mentality. The media and politician...
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6. REVERIE
April 17, 2020
MEMORIES POP-UP at random times during a lifetime, sometimes triggered by music, return to a familiar place, a sudden thought about a particular person, an old photograph; it could be any of a number of things. Today, a song on the radio took me back to a long ago event. It was one of those pleasant...
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7. A TIME TO LIVE
March 21, 2020
A TIME TO LIVE, AND A TIME TO DIE are two appointments all living things must keep; and is the thesis for a poem by Audrey Heller. Further, she charged us not to let precious time go by. I consider this very good advice, which I’ve attempted to follow during my allotted time. I say, burn a candle at...
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8. ROLLER DERBY, POLITICS, and the NBA
March 02, 2020
This essay is about quality, or rather about the disintegration of quality in certain aspects of my life, much of it occurring since the end of the 1980s. I admit “quality” is in the perception of the beholder; that is, it varies from person to person. However, no matter how you cut it, QUALITY has ...
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9. Ballad of a Retired Goof-Off
February 01, 2020
Once again the sun defeated the moon as night gave way to dawn, which was the 29,088th time since my birth. Better still, I blinked awake (yes!), and joyfully realized I had another day to mess around. You see, I no longer take waking up for granted, especially since a friend, artist Ed Man...
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10. METAMORPHOSIS: Transformation of an Opinionated Man
January 10, 2020
AS GREGOR SAMSA AWOKE from unsettling dreams one morning, he found himself transformed into a monstrous vermin. --Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis Ever know anyone who has experienced a life-altering metamorphosis? Come to think of it, that’s probably a rhetorical question. Chances are we all...
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Author: Gene Myers
