Professor Sandman’s Cosmic Jukebox of Harmonic Consciousness: YOUNG BOY by Paul McCartney

2.16.24 I don’t know. I’m kinda all over the place with this one. Of two minds. But more of the mind that this song is what I should share and right about, than not. So here we go … Paul MCCartney’s 1997 album, Flaming Pie, came out a year and a half before I became …

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Thanksreading 2020: The Un-bear-able Lightness of Reading

Something was wrong. It was the winter of 1985-’86, and I was really sick. Like, REALLY sick. I missed weeks and weeks of school, made numerous trips to different doctors and specialists, and filled countess tubes of blood for testing. What was the diagnosis? There wasn’t one. We still don’t know what was going on. …

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Thanksreading 2020: Secret Origins

For this year’s Thanksreading series, I’m exploring my development as a reader and giving thanks for the books and people who made me the lover of books that I am today.  Out on Route 15 in Johnson, VT, near the intersection with Hog Back Road, there’s a tiny, unassuming shop called Buggyman Antiques. That’s where …

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