ARTICLE. Insights, Infrastructure, and In General topics on Sustainability by Gregg Dieguez (Speech given at the 1/8/2020 Midcoast Community Council Meeting). I speak to you tonight about the lack of sustainability on our mid-coast, and what it means to you: the residents, ratepayers, and taxpayers. You are aware that the Big Wave development, placed on […]
Two Cats and Two Humans Travel in Peril
Fiction. Cats: everyone loves them, and everyone must know they do not travel well. But, knowing that didn’t deter me from taking Peaches and Buddy to Costa Rica where I lived for two years. They had traveled before on a longer flight to Holland when I lived in The Hague. I did my homework: the airlines and […]
The Boys of the 60’s ~ The Summer of Love, 1967 (16 years old)
A Memoir. That summer, the summer of love, the summer of 1967, went ballistic. Everyone left school that summer, as usual, but some, quite a few actually, returned completely different. Yes, I had ventured out during my sophomore year, but that summer I took a hike to hell. My friend said he had family in […]
Boys of the 60s ~ Divorce, Wrestling and Drugs (12 to 16 years old)
A Memoir. I suppose I loved my father. I cried when he left. Once, after he had moved from our home, he promised to take me fishing and I waited on the curb for a long, long time. My mother finally came and got me and that was that. That was a long long time […]
The Boys of the 60’s ~ The Adams Family and Pocatello Idaho (9-12 years old)
A Memoir. Mother had sold our home. Father had moved to NYC to work. And we vacated our little apartment and began our journey. Dan and I piled into mother’s 1959 Chevy Impala with some clothes and we left for Pocatello Idaho. Actually, to the outskirts of Pocatello known as Alameda County. We pulled into […]
The Boys of the ’60s ~ Whittier 1959 (8 years old)
A Memoir. It was 1959. We currently lived in Whittier, California where I was born in 1951. My father had punched holes in the walls one last time and had gone away. It was nearly Christmas and I wanted a football. So I licked and pasted all of my mother’s S & H Green Stamps […]
I Wore the Wrong Shirt to Work Today, a Memoir Series, Ep. 3
Originating from correspondence with an incarcerated friend, Thomas’s memoir, titled I Wore The Wrong Shirt To Work Today, is what Thomas calls the “random memories of a misfit.” Today’s podcast details a friend/landlord of Thomas who was known for his white Stetson hat and love of white wine by the gallon, and the more serious […]