Reflections of 1993……….
1993 Yearly Inflation Rate USA 2.96% Year End, Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 3654 Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 6.00% Average Cost of new house$113,200.00 Average Income per year $31,230.00 Events: include Brady bill signed into law, World Trade Center Bombing, Ethnic Fighting Bosnia, Beanie Babies ……. My reflections of 1993 Share Your History of 1993 Here or...
More reflection of 1993……
1993 just can’t seem to leave my memory bank. Other events of note in 1993: January 20: Bill Clinton is sworn is as the 42cd President of the United States. January 31: The Dallas Cowboys defeat the Buffalo Bills 52 to 17 in Super Bowl XXVII. February 26: Six people are killed at the World Trade Center in New York City when a bomb in a van explodes in a parking garage. April 19: The siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco,...
Beat the Drum Slowly, Arch Patton’s Generosity?
BEAT THE DRUM SLOWLY Short Story By J. Strauss. Zurich, part of the social igloo called Schweiz (the Germanic third of Switzerland), lay spread before him. Arch Patton stood on the roof of the Hotel St. Gotthard, the only hotel less than half a kilometer from the train station. It was cold, but then Zurich is cold to foreigners even when it’s ninety degrees, which is seldom. He blew the smoke from one last puff of the last...
Matchless, a Short Story by James Strauss
MATCHLESS Short Story By J. Strauss The old bike wasn’t much, certainly nothing that any islander would buy. Kam counseled with his dad about getting a new Harley, but the old man was no help. “Sell the damn thing to one of those dumb Haole’s down at the base,” was all he said. Without selling the Matchless Kam couldn’t make the down payment on the Sportster. It would take him another year of waiting tables at the Royal...
About Me
James Strauss was born into a Coast Guard family during WWII. He’s lived in four countries and twenty-seven states, in places from South Manitou Island in Michigan to Honolulu, Hawaii.
He’s held a variety of positions in many careers, from being a Marine Corps Officer wounded in Vietnam, a college professor in anthropology, a CIA team leader in the field and more recently as a screenwriter and novelist, along with publishing a Lake Geneva, Wisconsin newspaper.
James has published three novels; The Boy, The Bering Sea and The Warrior.