Bamboo Shoots breeze
ON HE RODE — Chapter Twenty-Seven
Heading south now in the already too-hot late morning of a day that will only get hotter as I hum along down the road to Frenario and beyond. What’ve I…
Bamboo Shoots breeze
ON HE RODE — Chapter Twenty-Six
Las Vegas — do I expect to see Sinatra’s Rat Pack, or maybe Elvis himself? Why not? When I’d not found Kerouac at Big Sur? The best Elvis songs from…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Rat
Writing Prompts for June (This is not a contest entry)
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Bamboo Shoots breeze
ON HE RODE — Chapter Twenty-Five
Unfortunately, the new Bamboo Ridge Press site is not yet ready for unveiling, but Jim Harstad’s next chapter is. So here we go : ) ON HE RODE — Chapter…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General
ON HE RODE — Chapter Twenty-Four
We are still on hold until the new BRP site comes up, but that has not stopped original BRP supporter and retired University Laboratory School English teacher guru Jim Harstad…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for General
ON HE RODE — Chapter Twenty-Three
I White-Ox toast a second glass of beaujolais across the room toward a table already lost in conversation and imbibe faster than I probably should. Outside, the sun blasts, its…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
ON HE RODE — Chapter Twenty-Two
Liquidity. English teachers are not good sources of information about this term. What they (we) don’t know can’t hurt them (us), but I’d guess that if they knew much about…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
ON HE RODE — Chapter Twenty-One
“Ubiquity,” on the other hand, has no definable history with me. I don’t know where I learned it or where I’d ever use it. Omnipresence, I guess. Everywhere at once….
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
CLOTHIER’S CLOSEOUT?
I get dis nice blue tee-shirt says PAU? in w’ite lettahs on da front. Da back says NOT PAU YET! in w’ite lettahs. I get da tee-shirt from Mr. Lum….
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Pig
ON HE RODE — Chapter Twenty
“Propinquity” is a word I learned in a junior college sociology class. It means something like proximity or physical closeness. Sociologists say that propinquity is the strongest factor determining human…