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Professor Jules Lambert Zentner – My Best Friend During My Darkest Years
When I ran marathons in seventh grade, I would drive to them with a bachelor professor in his thirties. He may have been the first in my life-long string of substitute father figures. I’d usually meet him around 4 a.m. … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, UCLA
Tagged being friends, chronic fatigue syndrome, courtly manners, Dennis Prager, dennis prager show, fellow students, hot date, male friend, marathons, napa valley, newcastle ca, overnight trips, rieber hall, scandinavian literature, seventh grade, unmarried man
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The Day Class Stopped
I was in seventh grade (at a Seventh-Day Adventist school, P.U.C. Elementary, in the Napa Valley) one morning. But there was no teacher. All the teachers were in a meeting. I started getting nervous. I feared they were in a … Continue reading
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Tagged bathing beauties, divider, napa valley, scantily clad women, seventh day adventist school
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The Lunch That Changed My Life
In December of 1979, I was part-way through eighth grade at the Seventh-Day Adventist Pacific Union College Elementary school in Angwin, CA, 94508. My father taught in the college’s Religion department but he was being shipped with my mother to … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, Personal, PUC
Tagged avondale college, bone cancer, double threat, heretical views, napa valley, religion department
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I Want To Connect To My Deepest Purpose
I want to make it big. I want to be huge. I want to feel full of purpose and passion. I want to get up every morning eager to tackle the day. I want to see the path ahead and … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged abc news, complimentary drink, daf yomi, entertainment tonight, napa valley, talmud study
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I Suck The Life Out Of Women
Something got seriously warped in my relationship with the opposite sex very early in my life. On the night of my first birthday, my mother got very sick. She was soon diagnosed with cancer and over the next three years, … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Sex
Tagged adult women, chronic fatigue syndrome, lovely life, napa valley, real girlfriend, sex parent
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The Blind Side
I love this movie. I identify with its big black protagonist. Like him, I’ve often felt lost. I often walk through the cold without a coat. I remember running up to Young Israel of Century City one Shabbos afternoon. It … Continue reading
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Tagged blind side, glint, napa valley, Neil Strauss, sabbath morning, softball field, Young Israel
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Just Lunch
Last week, I had lunch with a young woman. She was breathing and I really like that trait in a girl. Only a simple thing prevented me from touching her — my faith in God and in the LAPD. As … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, PUC
Tagged externals, faith in god, grandiose delusions, napa valley, open heart, outrageous things, truth seeker
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Hi Infidelity
REO Speedwagon’s ninth studio album "Hi Infidelity" came out in late 1980 and became the biggest selling LP of 1981 with six songs hitting the Billboard charts, "including "Keep On Loving You" which was the band’s first Number 1 hit." … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Personal
Tagged billboard charts, foundational doctrine, hi infidelity, ministerial credentials, napa valley, reo speedwagon
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My Own Housing Crash
I’m like Chairman Mao. I win hearts and minds and I live off the land in my little hovel. I devote myself to providing good blog posts for the community so they can have something to share with each over … Continue reading
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Tagged auburn area, chairman mao, napa valley, nevada mountain range, sierra nevada mountain, sierra nevada mountain range
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