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Life according to Grumpy

Life according to Grumpy

Someone said that to understand who you are, you have to go far away and look back. This is me, Grumpy Old Writer, sitting in Berlin looking back at 60 years and my far-away American home and trying to write about what I see.
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God Whispered a Secret
A poem – text & video
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E.T. Hansen
3 Essays: America lured into a trap; The only important decision about Israel and Palestine; Thank you, Israel
E.T Hansen - The political rant
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E.T. Hansen
The Great German-Belgian Joke Battle
On a summery early Autumn evening with friends.
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E.T. Hansen
Do men think about the Roman Empire? Do women?
I stumbled across this question on TikTok and had an answer
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E.T. Hansen
Dashiell Hammett's sophisticated and slightly odd "Thin Manhattan"
Trying out every cocktail in the book "How to Drink like a Writer"
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E.T. Hansen
How we find meaning by writing
The deeper you dive into the craft of storytelling, the more you understand exactly how we make sense of life by turning it into a story
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E.T. Hansen
W. Somerset Maugham's The Zubrowka
Trying out every cocktail in the book "How to Drink like a Writer"
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E.T. Hansen
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