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WHY RELIGIOUS FAITH

Having a strong religious belief is like having a large penis. It is nice to be proud of it but not nice to go waving it about in public. Faith in God is typically absolute, and either you believe or you don’t believe, and almost …

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Leave a Comment on WHY RELIGIOUS FAITH12 Oct 202013 Oct 2020 By Elliot Actor

We Get a Vaccine – Now What?

Sometime in the not to distant future, I anticipate being informed by Kaiser Permanente, my HMO, that I have been selected to get my COVID 19 vaccination. I don’t know if I will be in an early selected group, but being in a high-risk category, …

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Leave a Comment on We Get a Vaccine – Now What?18 Sep 20209 Dec 2020 By Elliot Actor

Foods

There is an old saying that “You Are What You Eat” and considering some of the strange things I have eaten in my life, if that is true, I am in bad shape. I grew up in a Jewish household, and some odd items were …

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Leave a Comment on Foods4 Sep 2020 By Elliot Actor

Hometown & Old Friends

If you have a place that you can call your hometown, no matter how good or bad it might be or might have have been, I consider you to be lucky, and I am jealous. I, unfortunately, don’t have such a place that I can …

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Leave a Comment on Hometown & Old Friends22 Aug 2020 By Elliot Actor

Masks or No Masks?

As a result of the requirement to wear masks nowadays, we tend to hear the words “freedom” and, to a lesser degree, “liberty” a lot, as these concepts are fundamental to what it supposedly means to be an American. However, as we hear these terms …

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Leave a Comment on Masks or No Masks?27 Jul 20201 Aug 2020 By Elliot Actor

My Eulogy

One of the things that I notice as I get older, especially now with the threat of Covid-19, is I always look at the obituaries in the Newspaper looking for someone I might have known and at the ages of the deceased. Although there have …

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Leave a Comment on My Eulogy12 Jul 202023 Jun 2021 By Elliot Actor

The Sphere

On June 10, 2023, at 4:20 AM, a shimmering silvery sphere of about 200 feet diameter abruptly appeared out of nowhere and hovered above the Lincoln Reflecting Pool in the National Mall. The first people to see it were the few DC policemen patrolling the …

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Leave a Comment on The Sphere4 Apr 202026 Aug 2021 By Elliot Actor

CHANCE ENCOUNTER

On December 3rd, 1965, Larry Zelinsky and his best friend Arnold Weismann graduated from The University of California at Berkely. They both received Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Political Science and had applied and been accepted to attend law school at Stanford the following fall. …

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Leave a Comment on CHANCE ENCOUNTER14 Feb 202012 Jul 2020 By Elliot Actor

HOW I MET MY WIFE

In June 1961, I received my discharge from the Marine Corps and moved to Sacramento, where my parents were then living. The reason I chose to go to Sacramento was not that my parents were living there, but because of the super-hot girl, I had …

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1 Comment on HOW I MET MY WIFE11 Feb 2020 By Elliot Actor

Why Do I Write?

The question of why do I write is especially significant to me as I am still astonished even today that I do write. If someone had told me only five years ago that I would regularly be writing and publishing novels, I would have been …

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