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To Talk of Many Things… (Vol. #12 – Chile)

Posted on December 20, 2021 by Joel D. Hirst

Latin America never misses a chance to miss an opportunity. How do you take the most prosperous nation in the region and ruin it? It’s a story that is told over and over until the telling is really not even … Continue reading →

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Will It Be Enough?

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Joel D. Hirst

Streets are charged, electric; Milling crowds are hectic; The rage it does now overflow; The violence is pyrectic. Boy he lifts a rock; Inserts it in his sock; Around, around his head does go; To ‘nother lad doth knock. Vendor … Continue reading →

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Daughter of Fortune – A Book Review

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Joel D. Hirst

I found a copy of Isabel Allende’s “Daughter of Fortune” at a little used bookstore nestled between a Peter Piper Pizza and a Payless Shoe Store in a strip mall in Colorado Springs. The sky was gray; the great Pike’s … Continue reading →

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