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A Hero Is Not Necessarily A Warrior
I start by encouraging you to read the linked essay by the always excellent Ed West, prompted by the courageous actions of several people during the…
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Get Thee Gone
Should people be executed by the state?
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End Sex Ed in Public Schools
Now there’s an inflammatory title!
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Death, Sweet Death
In the summer of my eighteenth year, one of my neighbors, high-ranking in US Steel, offered me a summer job, working the line at one of his mills.
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Good Enough
My mother, one of five children of Miriam Bergad and Harry Blockstein was brought up in Youngwood, Pennsylvania in the 1920’s.
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How I Didn't Stop The Vietnam War, But Became Superman For A Day & Night
With lots of "F . . .'s" Given
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Taking Hold Of One's Own Destiny: A Breathing Method To Help Manage PTSD
This essay is dedicated to all too many of my friends
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Ellis’s Substack
Ellis’s Substack
I will be posting on a variety of topics, as they come to mind. I surely will not be disciplined enough for a regular column - some will be old essays, published elsewhere, and some new material.
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