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Social Forces and Me
When my beat up 2009 Jetta with 70, 000 miles was stolen on the street in front of the apartment building where I live, I felt isolated, alone and a victim. It was the big impersonal ...
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A Walk Down the Street in Seattle
Located on the corner of 128th St and Aurora Avenue are a Vietnamese noodle house, a Chick-filโA, a used car lot, and a construction supply company that doubles as a used car lot, the latter presumably ...
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Recurring Dreams
My friend and fellow Hard Crackers editor Chris Alexander is largely responsible for this one. ย Chris is a medical technologist in the emergency room of a busy downtown hospital in Detroit. ย He performs CT scans (what ...
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Frozen in the Heart of Texas
Here in Houston, we are no stranger to natural disaster. Our addiction to the petrochemical industry should qualify us as masochists. I lived through Tropical Storm Allison, Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Harvey, and countless flood events in-between. ...
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My first reading glasses
Just after the New Year, I picked up my first pair of reading glasses at the Family Dollar around the block from my house. It wasnโt part of a New Yearโs resolution; in fact, it was ...
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Ho Ho This!
Christmas is here and if you live in America you know this because the bombardment starts on Thanksgiving.ย The television commercials are a dead giveaway, plus the specially named shopping days, โBlack Fridayโ or โCyber Monday.โย ...
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Murphyโs Law โ A Day in the Life
Murphyโs Law was in full effect for me today (Saturday).ย Murphyโs Law is not quite Sodโs Law, nor is it exactly Finagleโs Law, although they all capture the same sentiment.ย The tenet of Murphyโs Law is ...
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Hard Crackers Editors on WBAI
On this week’s episode of WBAI radio’s Deadline NYC, our editors John Garvey and Mike Morgan sat down with veteran journalist Tom Robbins for a discussion of their early political development and the Hard Crackers project. ...
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They Lost My COVID Test
Almost two weeks ago, I thought that I might have been exposed to someone with the COVID infection.ย I waited for a week and then my wife, Laurene, and I went to a nearby testing siteโconsisting ...
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Drawing Ourselves into the Picture
My mother Leah frequented the Durban Public Library in South Africa at least once a week.ย As the youngest child, I was often forced to tag along with her.ย I enjoyed those sessions.ย I used to ...
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