Starring Sam Spade This story requires an introduction. Sam Spade is a fictional detective created around 1930 by author Dashiell Hammett. Spade was the detective in the book and film, The Maltese Falcon. He lived in the same apartment the author lived in, and later during radio broadcasts of The Adventures of Sam Spade, he […]
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The invitation arrived in my email. I’d been invited to a reunion of my unit from Vietnam. We would stay just a few miles outside of Fort Rucker, Alabama. Thoughts of Mother Rucker (I had been one of her offspring) came rushing up from inside like a bad burrito. It had been over 37 years […]
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by David Every generation has to deal with the age old, nagging question of whether technology is a benefit to society or a hindrance. Boon or bane. It’s been said that before the age of 35 new tech is exciting and revolutionary, but after 35 new tech is against the natural order of things. It’s […]
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I remember our first remote. It came with our first color TV. We bought the TV specifically for Disney’s Sunday evening program, The Wonderful World of Color. There weren’t many programs in color and there weren’t many TVs with remotes. For some reason we called the remote “The Clicker.” Today I call it “The Button.” […]
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