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76The Individualist Socialist
So the individual is a social being, responsible to others, and therefore a socialist. "No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main." -- John Donne1 ...
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62Logically, I am
What does it mean to be a writer? A writer for Time Magazine, Newsweek, CNN, Washington Post, NPR, those are writers who I admire. In another life perhaps I could have been a war correspondent. Then again, if...
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74Missouri Bluffs
Parts of this article were published in the 1985 July-August Issue of Summit, a mountaineering magazine, Volume 31, No. 4. The rock hasn’t changed much since then. But I have. No longer do I rush from one...
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71Climbing in Colombia - Part 3
Part IIII am awake! It is only 10PM. My eyes are maniacally open wide, alert, ready to climb. Only two hours to wait like this. Eric is awake also. It’s 11PM. I rustle around so much bumping into him...
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68Angular Angst
Note: The Angular Chelitis Solution is provided absolutely free in this article. Occasionally, I work too hard, burying my soul with ambition. Sometimes my body breaks. I struggle to survive. I wonder...
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60Dating Advice - "Offensive Content"?
Wow! A first for me! My article "How to be a Woman and 'First Date' a Guy" was removed (from another site) because of "offensive content." Hmmm. Like many writers, I try to have a wide web presence;...
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70Climbing in Colombia - Part 1
Author’s Note:Most of this article was originally published in the May-June 1986 of Great Expeditions, Adventure and Travel Magazine, a small Canadian publication that is, like many of it’s kind, no...
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70Climbing in Colombia - Part 2
Part II The next morning, we made the pass, through a hole in a stone wall built along the ridge with at least a hundred stick crosses jammed into the rocks by God-grateful travelers. Not wishing to appear...
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61Tag
A few years ago, social networking included various "tag" games, usually imploring us, or our alternate identities to list our favorite things – a sort of online playground mentality. Our responses were...
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63Blog. Blog. Blog.
Writers are expected to market themselves, to appear everywhere electronic with blog after blog after blog, which eventually turns into blah, after blah, after blah. The blog becomes diluted writing not...
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