The Cobra by Frederick Forsyth My rating: 3 of 5 stars The Cobra was a bit of a disappointment for me, especially since I love Forsyth and most of his works. The premise is pretty simple. The president, who is clearly meant to be Obama, decides to take on the cocaine cartels and wants them …
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Well, I had my surgery yesterday. It was my third in the last four months. I guess it went okay. Although it's taking awhile for me to recover. I've gotten really woozy, very dizzy, and have had a sore jaw and a real headache -- very bad -- ever since waking from the anesthesia. At …
It's been a pretty tough week, although I'm going to start with last Friday night. Last Friday night, at 10 PM before we went to bed, I opened the freezer door and discovered the entire thing was melted. We have a huge ice tray and it was full to the brim with melted ice -- …
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I'd like to announce the publication of the Fall 2014 issue of Ray's Road Review, featuring a lot of great new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. This issue also marks the passing of the nonfiction and photography editing baton from Kelley Clink to Gretchen VanOstrand. Many thanks to both women. Since I edit the poetry, I …
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I had another surgery on Monday. A little neurological thing (two actually) called a Gasserian Ganglion Block and a Radiofrequency Ablation. I've had them before, so no biggie, right? Wrong. They couldn't knock me out! The anesthesia wouldn't work. I laid there for 15 minutes with the anesthesiologist telling me to breathe deeply the whole …
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