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Re Your Procedure

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Eugene Jones Baldwin

October 30, 2015 Dear Mr. Baldwin, This is to inform you that your pending neck surgery has been denied. You are over 65, Mr. B., the cutoff age that ushers in your Obamacare Death Panel review. Review we have, and … Continue reading →

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Go Pro

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Eugene Jones Baldwin

October 29, 2015 This morning, I got a call from Washington University Medical School. Would I, for compensation, agree to have my neck surgery filmed live? Heck, I’d kiss Carly Fiorina for compensation—but not live, and no tongues. Live from … Continue reading →

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Stones Tellers

Posted on October 24, 2015 by Eugene Jones Baldwin

October 24, 2015 I awoke and heard rain. I picked up the cat, walked down the hall, and looked out my office window. Red leaves, orange leaves, berries: all rained down, lush rain, soft rain, plush rain, whisper rain. A … Continue reading →

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100%

Posted on October 21, 2015 by Eugene Jones Baldwin

October 21, 2015 Because I am a cheap bastard, I’ve been buying home stuff for New Genehouse from Dollar General. It won’t last, of course, but it gets me through the next couple months as I finish moving in. On … Continue reading →

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Everything is Beautiful

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Eugene Jones Baldwin

October 9, 2015 You know you’re in trouble when two doctors, a nurse and an intern clad in catcher’s paraphernalia stand behind your prone body and cluck their tongues as they look at a live x-ray of your back and … Continue reading →

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Miley’s to Go Before I Sleep

Posted on October 18, 2015 by Eugene Jones Baldwin

October 18, 2015 Did you hear? Miley Cyrus is going to perform naked at a concert, and the audience will be naked as well. Me, I wouldn’t go to a Miley concert if she wore three layers of Farm and … Continue reading →

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Looking for a Mr. Goodbar

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Eugene Jones Baldwin

October 11, 2015 Today I: took my first walk from New Genehouse; kicked an acorn cap, the wind raising it up like a Frisbee and sailing it; stood on the river’s edge and watched sailboats headed south across Alton Lake; … Continue reading →

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The Riley Factor

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Eugene Jones Baldwin

Tuesday, October 6, 2015 I don’t know anyone named Riley. I once knew a dog named Riley, but he was kind and now he’s in doggy heaven. Therefore, I have not been predisposed to lecture a Riley. Until today. I … Continue reading →

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Advice and Consent

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Eugene Jones Baldwin

September 30, 2015 It was a Wednesday fall afternoon in 1989. A crowd cheered as I deplaned. The head cheerleader was Jack, a dapper, elderly gentleman whose condo overlooking the Ohio River would be my guest home. A local theater … Continue reading →

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Kat Susie’s Lament

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Eugene Jones Baldwin

September 29, 2015 My pop died last week. He was only sixty-two. How did he? His chest exploded. The way it was explained to me. He really died weeks ago, of a broke heart. Even says it on the funeral … Continue reading →

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