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Shorebreak

Posted on February 10, 2012 by stephenarcher

I feel the wave gath­er­ing under me, my feet ris­ing and the giddy feel­ing of it mov­ing beyond me, as if a horse just ran through me and then the falling, the falling and my feet back on sand and … Con­tinue read­ing →

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This Is (Not) Grass

Posted on January 27, 2012 by stephenarcher

Scarcity brings out the fun­da­men­tals in a per­son­al­ity. I will use myself as an exam­ple, although I could refer to oth­ers in my life as well, “ex” peo­ple of sev­eral vari­eties, wives and busi­ness part­ners come to mind – these darker sides … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Burnout

Posted on January 19, 2012 by stephenarcher

My patient had lit­er­ally burned a hole in his tiny, new stom­ach with a com­bi­na­tion of cig­a­rettes and alco­hol. I don’t have a moral posi­tion on this except that life is prob­a­bly worth pre­serv­ing until one can make an informed … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Hydra

Posted on December 27, 2011 by stephenarcher

At var­i­ous times, most of the time, now maybe, I have liked fash­ion. I sub­scribe to GQ. I know, but I do. I sub­scribe to weird French fash­ion mag­a­zines some­times where the mod­els are nude and waifs, and unhappy and … Con­tinue read­ing →

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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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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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Lisha

Posted on October 27, 2011 by stephenarcher

I am in Burlingame, CA. I would nor­mally want to just say San Fran­cisco, but it isn’t. I am in Burlingame for four days. I went for a walk along the bay. I was tak­ing pic­tures of an unusual man … Con­tinue read­ing →

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