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A while back, I was conversing with a person who insisted there is no Heaven or Hell. When you die, you're gone. Journey over. It made me think a little and I decided to write a story about one of my experiences. When I was living two doors down from the Fleming Castle on Bonnell Street, in Flemington, NJ, back in the late 70s, I had several experiences that you could call strange....

Every year around this time my sister, Maggie, and her husband, Bud, take a mandatory trip to Houston for follow-up tests. They left this morning from Cape Canaveral and no, they didn't fly a rocket to Mission Control. About four years ago, my brother-in-law underwent a bone marrow/stem cell transplant for AML, Acute Myelogenous Leukemia. (He has been in remission since.) He and my sister...

API - Hawaii - April 1, 2009 The office of the presidency of the United States was thrown into complete turmoil this morning when it was announced by Hawaiian state officials that Barack Hussein Obama was not born on native soil. After extensive testing and research, the birth certificate with his name, place and date of birth was indisputably proved to be a counterfeit. President Obama, who is...

On my website, I began writing about the Caylee Anthony case back in November of last year when I drove to Jay Blanchard Park. That was the day Leonard Padilla had a team of divers searching for Caylee in the Little Econlockhatchee River. I went to that location because I was in the vicinity and I wanted to take pictures of the action for a friend of mine. She was (and still is) obsessed by it...

In 1968, just before he was assassinated, Robert F. Kennedy was asked when he thought the first black president would be elected. (Of course, this was before African-American worked its way into the lexicon, and colored people was bowing out as one of the nomenclatures used to describe an integral part of American society.) 2008, the presidential candidate and senator from New York replied. He was...

Mom went shopping, leaving Dad in charge of their daughter. Wendy was about 21 months old and loved playing with her new tea set. Dad was engrossed in the evening news when Wendy brought him a little cup of “tea” that was really just plain water. He praised her good “cooking” skills, so she brought him another cup. After several more cups of “tea,” and much praise,...

I remember when the first megachurch was being built in Orlando. It was the Calvary Assembly Church in Winter Park. Huge concrete pillars were visible from the street as the church rose higher into the sky, almost Babelesque in scale. One day I ran into an old friend who worked nearby. “Hey, Dave,” he asked, “have you seen those giant pillars in front of the new church?” “Yes?”...

Many years ago, while in the restaurant business, we had a very faithful customer by the name of George. George would come in to eat every day. Sometimes two or three times in one day. He called my old boss, Jack, over to him one day. He told Jack he was getting married Saturday and he wanted to know if he could have his wedding reception there at the Weiner King. Now, George wasn't playing with a...

Uncle Dave, 2005 This is my uncle, David Kyle. He is recognized in the science fiction community as the elder statesman, certainly to the older generation and since the passing of two of his very close friends, Arthur C. Clark and more recently, Forrest J Ackerman, the man who coined the term, sci-fi. I don't know how many present day fans he has, but it's not all that important. He...

Spring is right around the corner and along with cleaning up, plenty of people spruce up their homes with a new coat of paint. Here are a couple of tips told through a real life experience... When I was young, in the 70s, my boss used to lay me off during the summer months because he could get 3 school kids to work for what he was paying me. It gave me the opportunity...