Monthly Archives: November 2011

Endless

Posted on November 29, 2011 by stephenarcher

So, son, its now, this moment, this moment. You are chang­ing me. Do you have enough of your­self to hear this and believe it? Can it roll through you as the truth with­out some shad­owy part of you telling you … Con­tinue read­ing →

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See Through You

Posted on November 26, 2011 by stephenarcher

Sun­day morn­ing is the right time for North Beach across the bridge from Cor­pus Christi. Sun­day morn­ing brings the truth to a place full of Sat­ur­day night fan­tas­ti­cal absur­di­ties fueled and cre­ated and sus­tained, des­per­ately, by what­ever the drug of … Con­tinue read­ing →

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What You Know and What You Don’t

Posted on November 19, 2011 by stephenarcher

I am study­ing for my recer­ti­fi­ca­tion exam in surgery, which comes around every ten years. The more I review every­thing (and I mean every­thing), the less I know. My knowl­edge base falls off pretty quickly once I get out of … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Drought

Posted on November 15, 2011 by stephenarcher

I drove through the empti­ness that is the end­less­ness of South Texas: see for­ever and noth­ing at the same time, as the joke goes. Hav­ing grown up here, I have earned the right to say it as I see it, or … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Burlingame

Posted on November 10, 2011 by stephenarcher

No mat­ter how impor­tant I make up my job is, there is always the num­ber cruncher who reduces it to the cold and low­est terms of dol­lars and hours and wid­gets and grub­bing and the taste in my mouth is … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Meathead

Posted on November 4, 2011 by stephenarcher

One of the ways that I learned about prej­u­dice was Archie Bunker. Archie had a prob­lem with any­one who, well, who wasn’t him. All in the Fam­ily was not polit­i­cally cor­rect in its ver­biage, but it did more for strip­ping … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Jesse

Posted on November 1, 2011 by stephenarcher

Jesse was hav­ing din­ner and not pay­ing much atten­tion to the World Series game seven. That made him inter­est­ing. We were sit­ting at the bar – every table was packed for the game. I had been tak­ing pic­tures of a closed and … Con­tinue read­ing →

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