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Dorien Grey and Me
http://www.doriengreyandme.blogspot.com
A general fireworks display of thoughts, memories, and observations on life from the mind of a writer obsessed with time and the lack thereof.
Though you and I have never met, everything I write is written directly to you.
- Added on: Apr 22nd, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Dorien Grey (Roger Margason)
- Listed in: Lifestyle Writing
- Tags: humor experiences time Nostalgia memoirs mental grab bag
Recent Posts
Eddys
Each of us bobs gently along on the surface of the river of time from moment to moment, hour to hour, day to day, without much thought or even awareness on our part. But every now and then, we find ourselves momentarily stalled in a small eddy where ...
An Angel Blinks
...and fifty-four years come and go, and a much older--though not much wiser--Roger sits and looks over his own shoulder as he writes another letter to his parents, so very long ago.2 December 1955Nine-fifteen and another day shot (to paraphrase a q...
Soap Opera
Because I have never been able to fully dissuade myself from the belief that the sun and stars revolve around me, I have frequently been dismayed to think I may actually, like Jim Carrey in the movie "The Truman Show", be the star of some cosmic bad...
Jingle Bells! Jingle Bells!
When I was a lad (oh, dear Lord, not another one of those stories!), in that magical time when human beings came before commerce and money became the end-all and be-all of our society, the Christmas season--and in that totally un-P.C. world it was th...
A Bologna Sandwich
Shortly after I returned home from Mayo Clinic after my successful treatment for tongue cancer in 2003, I had the indescribably overpowering craving for a huge glass of orange juice, which lasted for days. I was at that point still taking all my nour...
Cats and Dogs
I try to avoid talking about my cat for fear of being confused with those dear ladies who think if having 16 cats is good, having 27 is better. Rightly or wrongly, people seem to identify themselves as being "a cat person" or "a dog person" and it se...
