by Clifford James | Nov 21, 2023
The Great Flood The 4000th anniversary of the great flood will be in 2050 CE. Noah was there; I wasn’t. But I was around for the great flood of 1972. It was July and the remnants of Hurricane Agnus dumped about 12 inches of rain on us in about as many hours. It...
by Clifford James | Nov 19, 2023
I used to like to snow ski. It was always a good time. Now I am torn. The mind is willing but the body is not. I learned to ski while I was in high school in upstate NY. When I went to college in Connecticut, my roommate and I and a few other friends would take trips...
by Clifford James | Nov 18, 2023
“If you wrote down every single thought you ever had you would get an award for the shortest story ever.” Hm….. When I first read this, as a writer, I was offended. While I did complete an entire novel of almost 100,000 words resulting from my vivid imagination and a...
by Clifford James | Nov 16, 2023
My college roommate and I were kidnapped one night. It was a rite of passage into the fraternity. On this particular night, we were grabbed from our dorm room, blindfolded and loaded into a vehicle. No words were spoken and we did not know our captors. We drove for...
by Clifford James | Nov 14, 2023
If you’ve ever traveled anywhere in a tour bus, it can be fun, depending of course on who you are traveling with and where you’re headed. I’ve experienced tour busses as both passenger and driver. It’s a “what goes on behind the...