Back in the seventies, from what my brain remembers, there was a fascination with what was then termed “mysterious monsters.” I distinctly remember films about Bigfoot, and they frankly scared the shit out of me.
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Impressions ’85
I recently got a new scanner. It’s an older-model Fujitsu ScanSnap S500M, and since then, I’ve been a scanning fool. Perhaps I’m a bit more nostalgic than most, but I’ve been carrying around boxes of paper memories for the last twenty years. It begins mostly with high school — letters, photos, cards, awards, notes — [...]
Old Miscellany: Fleming and Bond
I was going through my filing cabinet this morning looking for notes on Flaubert, and I came across a file labeled “Old Miscellany.” I couldn’t pass that up. Oh the gems I found there, including some old copies of the North River News in which I had published some angry letters; some notes from my [...]
20 Year Reunion?
OK, guys, what’s up? Are we going to have a reunion, or not? I’m talking our twenty (that’s 20!) year high school reunion! I’m talking to you, members of the Bayshore High School (of Bradenton, Florida) class of 1987. I’ve done searches to try to find something out, but I’ve seen nothing. Anyone? I started [...]
Ralph Goodwin
In another stack of photos, I found some from high school, mostly friends doing their goofy things, but some of teachers that really made an impact on my life. Ralph Goodwin was one of those teachers. Goodwin was a science teacher; I believe he taught computer science in our high-tech classroom full of TRS-80s, but [...]
