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Tales From the Golden Ghetto

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Tales From the Golden Ghetto · 5M ago

A New Year’s Lament….I mean, Resolution!

The thing I hate about blogging is that it’s form is limited.  Some days, I wish I had my own radio show, so that I could talk about all the things I can’t stand.  But then, I would lament the limits of radio and I would get all caught up in the limitations of radio [...]
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Tales From the Golden Ghetto · 6M ago

It Sux To Be Me

I hate being me.  I really do.  It sux.  It really bites.  I cannot remember a time, outside of early childhood when I was ever really happy. My Aunt Charlotte committed suicide when she was 37.  I never knew her.  She died before I was born.  But sometimes, I sense her in my apartment, and [...]
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Tales From the Golden Ghetto · 6M ago

The Orthodox Blogger Who Isn’t

Before anyone gets too excited and thinks I must be mistaken, let me remind all of who I am and who my father is.  I have researched the issue and the person(s) involved and my conclusion is firm.  There’s no polite way to say this so I’m just going to go ahead, throw the Truth [...]
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Tales From the Golden Ghetto · 7M ago

Shepherd’s Lamps and Other Ways to Find Your Way Home

I walked through the apartment tonight, restless and wondering if sleep could ever come to someone like me.  How can I sleep when I contemplate all my many sins, all my many offenses against my fellow man, all my careless words, strewn about, and laying pitifully on the floor of what I used to recal
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Tales From the Golden Ghetto · 8M ago

On Throwing Your Life to the Dawgs

  I cannot add anything to this.  It is self explanatory. Filed under: CIA, Global Nomad, Incense, Intelligence agencies, Living Abroad, Orthodox Christianity, TCK, Third Culture Kid, Travel
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Tales From the Golden Ghetto · 8M ago

*Insert Embarrassed Grin Here*

Okay, so it seems that I just can’t resist threats in any form, from anywhere, without laughing. The recent “Street Vibrations” festival in Reno was not without its blemishes.  And when I called said participants on their illegal, unacceptable, immoral behavior, I  quickly became a “target” for crim
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Tales From the Golden Ghetto · 8M ago

Meet My Uncles…In Fictional Form, Of Course….

I got quite a few e-mails about my “uncles” and “aunties”.  I cannot comment on any of them and I wish to say that I have always changed their “names” whenever I talk about them.  They are/were very real and they were in fact, my dearest ‘family members’ as I was growing up, because my [...]
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Tales From the Golden Ghetto · 8M ago

The Ever Faithful Outcast, Reports From the Front….LOL!

*sigh*. I am ‘hated” even on FB: See below, copied and pasted: Jim Davidson One of the people we are wanting to help is Bradley Manning, unjustly caged for over a year now, without being formally charged. Please consider the petition, if you believe that your first amendment right to petition the go
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Tales From the Golden Ghetto · 8M ago

Re-Writing the Moscow Rules for the 21st Century

I grew up with the Moscow Rules.  But tonight, I am thinking of revising them.  I may be the first person in the West to do so. Here are the originals in English – I’ll dispense with the Russian versions, as my audience generally doesn’t speak Russian and I need to get my point across [...]
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Tales From the Golden Ghetto · 8M ago

Memories from holy Bucharesti….

  So, this evening, the subject of “why women aren’t allowed in Mt. Athos” and “why women can’t be priests” came up.  These are good questions and lead to lots of good discussions. Someone mentioned that if it weren’t for the babushkas and the yia-yias, the Church would never have survived.  This is
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