An Interview on the First Day Q: … A: The same thing that is on everybody’s mind: the war. I doubt if my thoughts are new or innovative—they are probably as old ...

Be Careful What You Wish For Though I do not remember what the story was about, I can see the green cardboard binder I put it in. I can see my juvenile handwriting ...

Border Crossing Why must I keep you out? What have I That is of such value, that means so much, That it cannot be shared? Is there such a thing as can warm a heart ...

Burglary The burglary occurred at the end of a long week. Any week with a biology midterm on Monday and a research paper due on Tuesday is likely to seem long, and ...

Editors and Other Strangers—or—“Space Nymphs of Aldebaran” "What do you figure is going to happen in the Middle East?” “I imagine the Iraqnophobes will get together ...

Medical Records on the Internet Can Security and Privacy be Assured? Changing economic conditions are driving rapid change in the organization of health care providers ...

Feet of Clay We all grow up with heroes, people whose accomplishments we admire, whose philosophies and ideals helped to shape our own. As time passes our social conscience ...

How I Write I begin with a few phone calls. Not calls about what or how I should write, just calls to friends. The arduous chatting paying no attention to the task ...

Literature/Writing 141 A collection of pieces from a 1991 writing course. ...Rely on Them, modern miracles University Haze , smog as a metaphor ...

People, Places, and Themes It isn’t where I am, it’s where I’ve been that seems to affect my writing. I can write almost anywhere—from the serenity of the hummingbird ...

Family Medicine and Psychiatry When I started medical school, I was strongly oriented toward family practice. It never occurred to me that I might be interested in ...

Puck the Mighty Puma Puck developed diabetes when he was thirteen. He responded well to treatment, but took his leave about 20December2004 at age 14 frac12;. His ...

random words a selection from archives Scarf (1993) She can do magic with a scarf, Turning the plainly beautiful Into the simply elegant, The way a stage magician ...

Recycling Seymour Gatt is a man with a problem. It’s this damned glastnost thing; it’s just not the way things oughta be. Lots of good men, the country’s best and ...

…Rely on Them Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. —Arthur C. Clarke I believe in miracles. Not thunder and lightning, fire from ...

Ron Risley Early in my life I worked with computers as a consultant on a number of hardware design and programming projects. In 1988 I went back to medical school ...

Selected Verses Fall, 1991 by Ron Risley for Quincy Troupe Literature/Writing 102 University of California, San Diego 9 December 1991 Contents Free Verse ...

Short Shorts One of my favorite college writing workshops was focused on "short short" stories, exercises in very short fiction. I ran across an archive from a 1990 ...

Specialization is for Insects A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance ...

The Cake Mostly it’s the cake. I don’t mean it’s easy, coming up with the “premiums.” Every Friday he comes, and if I think maybe I’m a little ahead, always on that ...

University Haze Life at UCSD seems calm compared to life at Caltech. The California Institute of Technology is famous for its pranks: students once surreptitiously ...

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