Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.
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The Wedding Guest
Originally published in Ginosko Literary Journal(2020). In the sixties, when I was still in elementary school, retail businesses in the city stayed open later than they do now. Most stores closed at about 7:30 or 8:00. Drug stores, however, stayed … Continue reading
The Peninsula Campaign of 1862
Excerpted from A Brief History of the Thirty-fourth Regiment by Lieutenant Louis N. Chapin (1903): March 29, 1862, finds the Thirty-fourth Regiment, with nearly all the rest of the First Brigade, onboard steamer, R. Williams, anchored for a little time … Continue reading
