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Just before Christmas 2023, I embarked on a sojourn that I thought, at the time, would only last a couple of weeks. Ten months later, I am barely beginning to find my way down the last stretch of road toward home. The...
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Of course, she’d kill me if she knew in advance that I was going to write this (which is why I didn’t tell her in advance), but I went out to dinner with her last night, along with her mother and father and...
Released: Human Sense
Just before Christmas 2023, I embarked on a sojourn that I thought, at the time, would only last a couple of weeks. Ten months later, I am barely beginning to find my way down the last stretch of road toward home. The...
Fall ’24 Happenings
This seems like just as good a time as any to discuss what has been going on behind the scenes in recent months. Ever since I set this website up several years ago, I had intended to use it as a general confluence...
David M. Who?
At 18, when asked what I wanted to be “when I grew up”, I told my big brother “Writer”, to which he replied that it was a dumb idea and that I’d always be poor. I went on to become an...
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A Necessarily – Amiss Christmas Missive
Editor’s note: This was first published back on Christmas Eve of 2009. The world was a dramatically different place back then. Accordingly, it has been nuanced over the years since its first publication. The message it...
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Descended from a long line of Appalachians, on the McCoy side of the feud, David was raised in a God-centric and American pride-influenced home in which kindness, human decency, humility, grace, self-respect, and good manners were expected and enforced. Blinded by three strokes and no longer able to read or write, David developed methods to compensate for these challenges in order to continue communicating; while acknowledging that there is more life in his rear-view mirror than whatever lies ahead through the front windshield, he insists this doesn't mean he has nothing left to say.
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