Hurl's Treehouse

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Mr. Miyagi and Me

In high school, I wasn’t allowed to work. “You take care of the grades, and I’ll pay the freight,” my dad told me. So it went. Working for a livin’...

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The Hook, the Rack, and Strong Verbs

You gotta hand it to the Ancients. They knew little about medicine, but they made up for it with ingenuous torture devices. And the names! The Brazen Bull. Chappy Chopper,...

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The Voices in My Head

No, I’m not crazy. At least not any crazier than before. I’m not describing malevolent, audible commands, like Son of Sam. These are my memory loops stored over six decades....

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The Punctuation Personality Test

Ever seen those clickbait ads/quizzes on Facebook or Yahoo? What kind of Thanksgiving dish are you? or We can guess your home state in ten questions! Maybe, These are the...

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Five Things I Don’t Like

I’m the outlier, the alien invader (reminds me of Space Invaders, the first video game I played, beginning a transition from pinball to arcade games). I’m the salmon swimming upstream,...

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Walter and I Work Out

(In honor of James Thurber, creator of Walter Mitty.) I exercise a few times a week at the Joe Farmer Rec Center in Allen. It’s adequate–a full-court gym, two racquetball...

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The Myth of Control

I lived in Southern California in the early 80’s. In my spare time, I visited Laguna and Huntington, to body surf and frolic. Once time, my back turned to the...

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Where Do You Get Ideas? (part 1)

BY HURLS · MAY 12, 2023 Said to be the wisest of all the Greek Muses, Calliope inspired writers. Being cool Cats, we had a writing center at Wheeling High School called the...