To Hell - and back

Saturday, October 31, 2020

50 cents and a bag of oranges

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(Note: This article was originally published on October 13, 2010. By some fluke in the blogger website, it recently got moved up to a more c...
Saturday, October 24, 2020

77 Sunset Strip

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  Lost in the flood of news that we are all subjected to on a daily basis this year was the death notice of a man that all of us knew very w...
Friday, October 23, 2020

Profiles in Courage

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  Profiles in Courage   is a 1956 volume of short biographies describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight  United States Senators , wr...
Thursday, October 1, 2020

A tale of two Brennans

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    Apart from knocking on some doors for the Democratic Party in Flagstaff, and helping Brian collect signatures when he was running for an...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

death and taxes

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  When Dwight Eisenhower was president, the marginal tax rate reached its peak (92%) in 1952 and 1953. Union membership reached its peak in ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

The World Trade Center fell on my head.

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    I wrote the story below nearly 10 years ago, and somebody someplace in the world read it yesterday. Although most of us would admit th...
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Tom Brennan
Flagstaff, AZ, United States
I sold cars for The Autobarn of Evanston from February of 2005 until my retirement in July of 2011. Immediately prior to that, I was a college level English instructor in Guangzhou, China. Being Irish, I have long felt a compulsion to put down my thoughts on paper. After one of my customers published a few of my stories on HER blog site (Dwana), I eventually figured out how to publish stories on my own site. The first story (To Hell and back - on a bicycle) appeared on March 4,2009. The inspiration for the title is a man named Clayton Klein, an elderly Michigan man who walks from Paradise (Michigan) to Hell (Michigan) every year (a distance of 420 miles) to raise money for charity. His story, as well the bicycle ride that my daughter and I undertook in the summer of 2007, provided the starting point for what became the site titled tohell-and back.
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