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Changing Professions in Arizona

by barranca

Changing professions is like reincarnating. In an earlier life, I made furniture in the heat in Tucson, Arizona. Lots of it. My shop hummed, howled, buzzed and screeched seven days a week for close to ten... published 14 months ago

6 comments    arizona reincarnation labor

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My Four Fights

by barranca

One day, on the playground during physical education class, we were running relay races. We were divided into two teams in lines at both ends of the asphalt basketball court. The game was simple: each of us... published 15 months ago

4 comments    friendship arizona boxing

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Big Block Buick Wildcat Memoir

by barranca

Dad bought the big Wildcat perhaps for several reasons: I begged him to, the power tempted him, he was getting restless in retirement or money was burning a hole in his pocket (it rarely did). I was... published 6 months ago

4 comments    automobile memoir muscle car

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Illegal immigrant labor: Antonio: a Border Memoir

by barranca

One day I asked Ignacio if he knew anyone who could build a wall around my house and stucco both. He replied that his brother, Antonio, was a master mason and looking for work. I trusted Ignacio completely... published 8 months ago

3 comments    business politics memoir

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Book Review: A Freewheelin' Time: Suze Rotolo

by barranca

Suze Rotolo's memoir of Greenwich Village in the early sixties, A Freewheelin' Time, is an involving story from the epicenter of a cultural revolution. The ostensible reason most people will read the book... published 5 months ago

4 comments    politics book review feminism

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deaddog

by barranca

Jake My father, after his early retirement, bought a hunting dog named Jake. Jake was a German Shorthair pointer. He was a nervous, handsome dog, and Dad kept him outside in the kennel in our back yard. I... published 2 years ago

3 comments    pets dogs story

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Folsom Vacaville San Quentin Prisons: A memoir

by barranca

The best class I had in seminary, titled "Ministry to Captive Structures ", was taught by Dody Donnelly at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. The class included about a dozen students both women and... published 9 months ago

9 comments    california architecture justice

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Rev. Jim Jones and the People's Temple: A Memoir

by barranca

The day I met the infamous Rev. Jim Jones, he was wearing semi-opaque sunglasses and a black shirt, and he was being trailed by a half dozen or so teen-aged young men. They piled out of a wine-colored van... published 9 months ago

21 comments    suicide evil cult

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Classroom Management: A teaching memoir

by barranca

Classroom Management Classroom management was the key buzzword in teachers' college when I went back to school to learn to become a teacher after a first career as a woodworker. I remember being... published 8 months ago

5 comments    advice tips philosophy

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My First Job

by barranca

My father decided it was time for me to get a job. I was sixteen, could drive and had an entire summer ahead of me with nothing in particular to do. Dad believed strongly in the moral value of work which... published 14 months ago

1 comment    employment interview star

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