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Telling A Lie
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September 17, 2022

Words mean things, specific things.

A “lie” is when someone knows otherwise but chooses to intentionally deceive others.

pSOS+ at Westinghouse

Somewhere between 1995 and 2000, I was sent to teach a pSOS+ class to Westinghouse engineers in Savannah, Georgia.

Housing prices in Phoenix have skyrocketed with the influx of Californians. With their excess cash, they are “California-ing” the houses including the addition of concrete block fencing in front of the house, and sometimes all the way across the front of the property, albeit a low one.

I attended a book signing by John Sandford, a pseudonym used by John Camp, at Scottsdale’s Poisoned Pen Bookstore yesterday evening. I made some notes from the event.

The movie “Arrival” (2016), in spite of its sometimes slow progress, has intrigued me for some time. After watching my BlueRay copy for the n’th time, I did some digging and came up with both the original story and also the screenplay.

Marionettes
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April 9, 2022
"Sometimes, during grief, we need someone to take our hand, lead us back onto the dance floor, remind us what it is to be alive."

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