Toe Knee Stories

A place to waste some time

Puppet Show

This is a puppet show with extremely low production values and marginal puppeteers. It takes place in a bar.  Not a dive bar, not a fancy bar.  Just a bar.

Luke is sitting with his girlfriend, Bathsheba.  The bartender, Elmer, is washing beer glasses.

Biak and Beyond

The morning of May 27, 1944, the convoy reached the island of Biak, a Japanese fortress that blocked the way for any force planning to go to the Philippines.  Biak was needed for its harbor facilities and its airfields.

Retired

I’m retired, but I’m not comfortable with it.

Ancestry

Stop reading this right now.

Stand up and take a bow.  Jump up and down with your hands over your head like Rocky on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  Break your arm patting yourself on your back. 

You are a miracle.

The CIA

It was around 3:00 AM on Saturday September 22, 2001, My oldest brother, Phil, and I were sitting in his living room waiting for the cancer to take him.

He was 56.

My Reputation…

He started it.

On a sunny August morning in Paris at the French offices of a multinational corporate octopus I unknowingly brought a gun to a knife fight.

Lupe

One Sunday evening in October of 1981 I wobbled up to the baggage claim at the international airport in São Paulo, Brazil, wondering whether the previous 26 hours had been a nightmare or a fantasy.

Midlife Crisis

In the early 2000’s I was 53 and leaving middle age.  I was wondering what’s next when some nasty questions popped up.  Like.  Have I accomplished anything worthwhile? What’s next?  How much hair can I grow from my ears, nose and eyebrows?  Do those ED drugs really work?

The Three Norns

On the day Niles first opened the workroom door, the three Norns cast his fate.

The Barn

To Niles the one hundred and forty year old barn was a corner of heaven.

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