Category: Auto-biographical
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The Great Sidecar Experiment (Part Three)
The Great Sidecar Experiment Part Three: trench warfare If “Deja Vue” was a movie, then what I was seeing was a surreal re-run. I already knew from personal, painful experience, that motorcycles do indeed crash occasionally. I also knew what it was like to find yourself unexpectedly suspended in mid air, wondering how, when, and…
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The Great Sidecar Experiment (Part Two)
The Great Sidecar Experiment Part (2) Invocations to Divinities based on true events… One moment we were all cheering loudly. The next moment, there was a stunned pause amongst us, followed by peculiar, strangled sound effects. Hands shot up involuntarily and covered mouths. Arms were raised to the heavens, as if in devout supplication. Gasping,…
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The Great Sidecar Experiment (Part One)
The Great Side Car Experiment Part One: A Good idea based on true events… It seemed like a good idea. The word spread like wildfire around the Dublin area motorcycle fraternity. You can build your own motorcycle side car. Deklan and Tim had it all worked out. They were doing it! Of course, in the…
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Diary, July 27th, 2011 “The Norwegian Massacre “
Diary Entry Wednesday, July 27, 2011 “The Norwegian Massacre “ Just surfing the news of our little planet, and I find myself falling back on some of my core, basic beliefs. That have sustained me, kept me going, and keep me… sharp. The Norwegian massacre, with a lone gunman bombing and killing his way to…
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Nursing Shoes
Nursing Shoes I bought a new pair of nursing shoes the other day. They are the brown slip-on variety that seems to be in vogue if you take fashion advice from a shuttle bus full of middle age women working twelve hour shifts. These shoes are a world different from my first pair of nursing…
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“What is it that you do? “
I have been a Recovery nurse for nine years. (Nine frickin’ years!) I never intended to be a Recovery Room nurse (of course I never really intended to be a nurse so…) I did my two year mandatory sentence on various med-surg floors then at the first opportunity I finagled my way into the OR.…
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A reflection on what I do for a living
A writer and a poet I am not I am just a scribbler With a tiny passion To express my thoughts in writings Like a photographer Who works his lens And captures a perfect moment With a click So do I A scribbler Who play with words And capture a perfect thought With a pen…
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Cops & Robbers (8B) “Spotlights and Bullets (Part 2) “
Spotlights and Bullets Part TWO On the ground, there was now what sounded like complete chaos. Everybody was talking at once, but with half sentences, unintelligible instructions, warnings, and frantic counter orders. With bullets flying, tall mountains around, steel aerials, and a large bull’s eye painted on the bottom of my helicopter, I wondered once…
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Cops & Robbers (8A) “Spotlights and Bullets “
Spotlights and bullets I’m probably a little bit of an adrenaline junkie. No, make that a big bit. It’s all genetics. Maybe. The bottom line is that I would have made a lousy librarian. I just know I would have messed up any book shelf. I just like to feel I’m alive. I respect risk,…
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Cops & Robbers (7B) “A Deadly Search (Part 2) “
A Deadly Search (Part 2) A Hidden Killer Preoccupied as I was with what had happened, my mind was full of questions and self doubts. Could I have done better? Should I, could I, might I…? I was dumbfounded in a way, my usual bouncy confidence in the ability of the helicopter to work miracles…