By Eric Le Roy
Content 18+
I don’t get out much anymore, which is not the way I’ve lived my life. I’m 74, but that’s nothing; after a lifetime of excess, I’ve been pretty much a workaholic for the past 15 years. I’ve built a business as an ESL tutor, first by pounding the streets in Moscow, now and for the past six years working long days and evenings online … Read the rest
Jerry West And The Snows Of Yesteryear [Part 2]
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By Eric Le Roy
Content 18+ (maybe even 21+)
Part 1: https://thinkmytime.com/jerry-west-and-the-snows-of-yesteryear
The Late Innings
Now a lot of the shops and businesses were opening, and through the vast draperies of snow that reminded him of some sort of grand circus tent or bazaar full of an endless array of curtains with glittering designs from maybe Turkey or some Arab land with belly dancers bearing beautiful gleaming jewels in their … Read the rest
Jerry West And The Snows Of Yesteryear [Part 1]
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By Eric Le Roy
The Snows
A Return to Charleston
There was a light snow falling when Gary Smithers got off the bus at the Greyhound station in the center of town. It was early in the morning, just after 6.00 or thereabouts, and he searched the streets for a cafe, not wanting his first coffee of the day to come from the scabrous … Read the rest
Eternity In Still Frames
By Eric Le Roy
Content 18+ As time goes by, I feel distances spreading within myself. It’s as if the core of me is a little private plane without a compass and running out of fuel circling aimlessly in a sheer blue sky with snow-capped mountains in the distance on all sides. In effect, my essence has been stretched; it is becoming the material of the sky, and by this … Read the rest
Happy at Last
by Eric Le Roy
Content 18+ I am blessed by the fact that my students and other friends are always sending me interesting things to read. One I got recently was an excellent article by a writer I hadn’t heard of named Cody Delistraty on the theme of what he termed the “relentless, competitive” quest for ‘Happiness” and how people today often make themselves miserable trying to obtain it.
I … Read the rest
Ephemeral Eternity
By Eric Le Roy
Content 18+ Imagine two winged thing-a-me’s shaped sort of like boomerangs, with each coming to a sharp point on its end. They are flying toward each other through the nothingness of space. Maybe they look something like this: <; then <; then <. Here, according to Wikipedia, is what a ‘vector’ looks like: 
except that, as you can see, my ‘vectors’ are on a collision course. … Read the rest
The Starbridge Over China And Other Essays
Today we welcome a new author of our blog, @elainej (Elaine Jiang，蒋绎藟) - meet Elaine!
starting with her short essays...and who knows what comes next!
By Elaine Jiang，蒋绎藟
Star Bridge
Content 6+ I sit in front of my bedroom window and watch the sky as if I half-expected it to watch me back. Darkness has colored the city and there’s no star above at all, not one. But in my … Read the rest
