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Three years ago I started having pain in the upper right portion of my stomach.  It was very sore but I didn’t think much of it the first couple of times I had it.

Let me take a step back and give some history.  When I was in 6th grade I had some pain in my upper right abdominal area.  It hurt to eat or drink and I was out of school for probably about 6 weeks or so.  I had test after test in the hospital but the doctors never found anything wrong.  Eventually it was chalked up to stress … Continue Reading

Man I love Steinbeck, love him!

This book was not a disappointment.  It wasn’t as much of a novel as a group of short stories with a thin novel thread running through it.  It’s like the Canterbury Tales on steroids.

The characters are all so interesting, almost each one has a chapter or two devoted to them.  You could probably read the stories in any order, they’re arranged chronologically but you could probably put them in a deck and shuffle them and come out with something unique and powerful.

This book is written about the period right after the depression but right before … Continue Reading