Category: Jon’s Log

Psychedelics, Part 2 Rainbows and Strategic Bombing

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Copyright 4-19-22 / 1,397 words by Jon Kramer Nonfiction. These events took place in the around 1970 in Maryland. The late 1960s and early 1970s were a time of...

Psychedelics, Part 1 Go Naked

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Copyright 4-11-22  /   635 words by Jon Kramer Nonfiction.  These events took place around 1970 in Maryland. In the late 1960s / early 1970s – during the height of...

Two Hughes: Aviation trailblazers willingly pay the price

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Copyright 2022, updated / 2,825 words by Jon Kramer Nonfiction. Some people are born to fly, some are born to crash.  I know of two that were born to...

The Original Mr. Brunswick Pool Sharks and Cowboys

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Copyright 2-12-2022  /   4,537 words by Jon Kramer Nonfiction.  These events took place early 1980s. While in college, one of my keen interests was billiards.  I have always been...

The Trailer | The Devil Has Four Wheels

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Copyright 1-1-2022 / 6,477 words, by Jon Kramer Nonfiction. These events took place circa mid1970s A family of four rowdy kids, two frazzled parents, and a long-haired Persian cat...

Thanksgiving | What is this all about?

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Today is one day in the year that we remind ourselves to give thanks for what we have. But we should not need reminding. Nor should it be for...

Truth or Consequences | High Crimes and Misdemeanors in the Southwest

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Copyright 1-10-2022 / 5,577 words by Jon Kramer Nonfiction. These events took place in 1977 on a road trip to the Southwest with me, John Kelly, and Matt Goodman,...

The National Museum | Damned Invertebrates at the Smithsonian Institution

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Copyright 9-29-20  /   4,362 words, by Jon Kramer Nonfiction.  These events took place 1982 – 1983. After graduating from St John’s,  a strict military high school in DC run by...

Seligman | Finding footprints in the sands of deep time

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Copyright 2020  /  5,367 words, by Jon Kramer Nonfiction.  These events took place from the early 1980s to mid 2000s. The town of Seligman, Arizona clings like a tenacious...

Minneapolis Burning | The elephant in the room is now on a rampage

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Copyright 6-1-2020  /   736 words, by Jon Kramer Nonfiction.  These events have taken place over the last week.  Dad had a fondness for saying: The inevitable will occur… And so it has...