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I have wrestled with my Bi-Polar Disorder most of my life even before it broke out in the mid 1970’s I knew my point of view was not normative . In childhood I realized I was not the happy little boy I might have appeared to be. I had a strange sense of self awareness as if I was following some… Read More

I have some writing to do that I have procrastinated about because it cuts to the quick. My father was an awful man perhaps the worst person in my life . He was an immigrant,third grade education an alcoholic and an abusive cruel man. I won’t get to caught up in the details suffice it to say he… Read More

Dear friends , I am in the middle of changing my email address for the first time in many years , it is also associated with my web site which is going to have to have a new address as well. The company I had been using was swallowed by a bigger company and now the price for my ISP is 10 times… Read More

Second day of ice and snow,slush and rain really intense little or no traffic , missed appointment with kidney specialist. , I’ll try again Friday. Many appointments lately whilst on Chemo drug , foot indeed feet beat to hell sores everywhere on my arms and legs. The neuropathy seems to take its… Read More

Things going from bad to worse . I read a lot of Nietzsche starting with a German professor in Oakland or Berkeley in 1967 at first it was a choice of texts to read in a philosophy course whilst in CCAC ( now CCA) it was on the street that connected Oakland to Berkeley . It have fond memories of… Read More