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N ot long ago I was behind an elderly woman at a fast food snack bar and overheard her order to the teenage boy working there. Listenin...

E veryone is familiar with the ads that these days populate nine out of ten pages on the Internet, popping up and jiggling or blinking, som...

W e all have memories of special places. For one it’s a particular spot in the old hometown, and for another it may be the jungles of B...

F or one who enjoys reading, the best times come when stumbling upon a book and writer you never suspected would knock your socks off and r...

T his past Thursday marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. How pale those words seem in describi...

C hances are high that every writer likes to see his or her book singled out by the press for pre-publication notice. But on occasion the c...

Nagahara Nobuyoshi 1932-2015 I n 1947 a 15 year-old boy went to work at the Sailor Pen Company in Hiroshima, Japan. He continued to wor...