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For-Profit, not Community – a Primer
Leave a commentAugust 3, 2025 by dleecox
For-profit “colleges” operate very differently from State sponsored community colleges. I have often likened the experience of the for-profit education …
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A Southern Snow
Leave a commentJuly 9, 2025 by dleecox
Like a lost dog I tramp down the snow and ice covered street. The crunch of my footsteps the only …
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The Small Shiny Things With Heft
Leave a commentJuly 9, 2025 by dleecox
Charles Schuster, a widower, called his only daughter “Cupcake.” Flush with money he made in electric insulators, Charles sent her …
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My Friend Lynn
Leave a commentMay 18, 2025 by dleecox
Rodney Lynn Thomas passed this last winter. We’d been friends since around spring of 2000. I remember the first day …
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Which Way is Up
Leave a commentJanuary 7, 2025 by dleecox
I don’t know which way is up And I’m OK with that ‐‐—- I should be alone but I know …
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Reunion
2October 19, 2024 by dleecox
she pulled off the asphalt onto the drive, the wheels of her candy apple red mercedes angrily crushing the chirt. …
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The Offer
Leave a commentMarch 22, 2024 by dleecox
I asked him why he thought to tell me these stories. I had no idea there was some sort of …
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Virgil’s Search
Leave a commentMarch 22, 2024 by dleecox
Eustis Gene Stephenson sat in a cheap dining hall captain’s chair as though he were sitting in a fine Barcalounger, …
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Virgil’s Turn
Leave a commentMarch 22, 2024 by dleecox
Virgil smiled. He said, “All told I’m appreciative of the time I’ve spent here. As a black man I’ve been …
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Virgil Takes the Mantle
Leave a commentMarch 22, 2024 by dleecox
Virgil Sanders explained to me that in 1865 Franklin Pedimore was 87 years old, but looked no more than 30. …
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