To Hell - and back

Sunday, May 9, 2021

the next Bobby Fischer?

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  A  chess prodigy , at age 13 Bobby Fischer won a game which was dubbed " The Game of the Century ". At age 14 he became the youn...
Wednesday, May 5, 2021

the scent of a woman

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Scent of a Woman  is a 1992 American  drama film  produced and directed by  Martin Brest  that tells the story of a  preparatory school  stu...
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Sunday, April 18, 2021

The Weight

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  The 1960’s were a time of good music in America. Early on, Bob Dylan started the movement, and was quickly followed by the Beatles, Peter,...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

the land of sky-blue waters

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  The word  Minnesota  comes from the  Dakota name for the  Minnesota River , which got its name from one of two words in  Dakota : "m...
Sunday, April 4, 2021

double dipping

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    “Double dipping” refers to a perfectly legal practice that allows public employees to collect multiple pensions after they retire. To ...
Friday, April 2, 2021

Lost in the Fifties Tonight

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    In the 1950’s, all of us were still in grade school, and really were not aware of what was happening in the world around us. There were ...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

Dr. Spock

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  In the 1989 movie, “Field of Dreams”, Ray Kinsella (Kevin Kostner) hears a little voice in his head that said, “If you build it, they will...
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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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