Sue Hollister Barr

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Sue Hollister Barr
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Pubescent Putin

Guest Posts
My brother Maury…a talented poet and writer whose books are available here and whose far-more-tasteful-than-mine website is maurybarr.com…has said what, it could be argued, no woman could get away with saying without censure: Headline: Antisatellite Nuclear Weapon Oh, your smile! It’s Mr. Crafty! What are you doing? Put your pecker…

According Ability

General Rantings
We all know Karl Marx’ words:  “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”  He (who, in the 19th century, only considered he/him folk worthy of discussion) was talking about the division of a particular society’s assets.  I (who, in the 21st century, only very recently…

Mighty Mouse

Flash Fiction
“Damn mouse!” I didn’t dare respond, but my wife’s anger worried me.  She was cleaning the fresh mouse shit off the kitchen counter with enough homicidal rage to viciously slaughter someone a lot bigger than that poor mouse. “Whad’ya do this time, Husband Dearest?  Replace my old-fashioned, snap-their-little necks mouse…

Fabulous Foolishness

Reviews
I highly recommend a 1949 film entitled My Foolish Heart, currently available for free on Amazon Prime.  Despite the title, you can stop rolling your eyes.  The only authorized film adaptation of anything written by J.D. Salinger, it may not be perfect, but his authenticity made the unique cultural and…

Slippery Science

General Rantings
I’ll start by giving the other side of this argument its due: Like the bible, in which passages can be found to support both sides of remarkably opposite points of view, respectable scientific experiments and statistical analysis can be found to support both the politically polarized left and right in…

Edible Enchantment

Other Stuff
The ecstasies of the east drew me to the west. Hypnotized, I headed for that vintage wooden schooner at the end of Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Her masts seduced me with their rhythmic sway: a slow side to side, then an impetuous backwards circle incestuously doubling back on…

Eastern Ecstasies

Other Stuff
East River. Pier 6. Vintage wooden schooner that’s circumnavigated the globe twice. I lazed at a waterside table just south of Pier 5, gazing across the water separating my Brooklyn home of many decades from my birthplace in Manhattan. Toying with a trick from decades ago, I squinted: The sunlight…

Genetic God

Guest Posts
Recently I had the great pleasure of meeting author Matthew Alper, who describes a fascinating book of his below: It is not a coincidence that all humans have a nose in the middle of their face or that all cats have whiskers or that all Monarch butterflies have the exact…

All’s All

General Rantings
All’s well that ends well?  When all of life ends in…death?  Do I throw out a lifetime of memories because of all that ended not at all well? Finally, just maybe, I get it.  The key to the correct perspective is to recognize the dichotomy between the permanence of memories…

Flippantly Factual

General Rantings
In my not-so-humble opinion, the polarity between left and right in the USA has reached such extraordinary extremes that neither side can be relied on to report the facts with enough objectivity to even remotely resemble anything truly truthful.  Personally, I’m on the left, but…for me, at least…truth and perspective…
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