Word and photos by Ken Billett Birds, mostly gulls, swooped and squawked, playing in the oak trees lining 4th Avenue North in downtown St. Petersburg,…
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Tag: Time Capsules
Family Ties III: Winnie Ille Pooh
Words and photos by Ken Billett At the bottom of a plastic bowl, Winnie the Pooh smiles up at Tigger who has bounded atop the…
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Just Another Day
August 30, 2022, around 8:45 a.m.— “So, that’s a good question…in fact, that’s a great question.” My oncologist looked down at his notes and then…
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2022 International Blues Challenge: Hey, Hey, The Blues is All Right
Elijah Boone strummed a chord on his acoustic guitar and then kicked off his set at Ghost River Brewing Company’s Beale Street taproom and beer…
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Saturday Night’s Still All Right
Late Saturday afternoon, I stood in our walk-in closet tucking a golf shirt into my jeans, watching my reflection in the long mirror. I slid…
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Southern Sinterklaas: Merging Holiday Traditions
“Anything sweet in the cupboard?” I asked. December and the holidays bring out the worst in my sweet tooth. “We still have some of these…”…
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Happy Birthday, Spiderman
Great fortunes in my treatment for stage IV metastatic melanoma By Ken Billett Seated in a waiting area just outside the Radiology department, a man…
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Birthday Week: May 17
May Seventeenth By Ken Billett The metal slug lies in a small slot inside my wooden lap desk—the kind of old item you might find…
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Time Capsule
By Ken Billett “Where are the multivitamins?” “In the big white bottle.” “They’re all big white bottles.” “So, find the label that says Multivitamin.” “Here it…
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