Past Perfect
Decameron Tale IV – The Timothy Leary trial put Laredo on the map in 1966: the world had come to town
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The trial took five days, the verdict 15 minutes
The Re-Con
The Quick and the Dead: before breathing became dangerous
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COVID-19: the new arbiter for life or death
Past Perfect
Decameron Tale III – Larry’s tale: the buzzards for the filming of McMurtry’s Hud in Amarillo were Laredo zopilotes
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The imported buzzards were wired to the tree branches, tried to fly away, and dangled upside down
Past Perfect
Decameron Tale II: The short, unhappy life of my self-inflicted mullet
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One of the falling dominos in this disaster was the image of Rod Stewart rocking one of the first mullets
Past Perfect
The Laredo Decameron: tales in the time of quarantine
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As we stick together by staying apart, there is more time to think or pray or read
Past Perfect
“The Incident at Laredo”: faulty assessment of nuke en route from Cuba
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When your life was hanging in the balance, you gasped a forbidden word you learned as a child. It could have been your dying word.
The Re-Con
And It Was So: through history walls rose from distortions of truth and justice
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Stop this one: rise
Past Perfect
Fear and Laughter in Laredo: growing up under the mushroom cloud, Part 2
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was no joke: our little nuclear family was at the mercy of a high-stakes game of nuclear chicken
Past Perfect
Our children claim to know us throughout, but they’ve never understood our fear of annihilation by atomic blast
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I am remembering the opposite of nostalgia: recurrent memories of childhood fear