Cleve Taylor
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Published author of three books: Ricky Pardue US Marshal, A Collection of Cleve's Short Stories and Poems, and Johnny Duwell and the Silver Coins, all available in paperback and e-books on Amazon. Over 160 Vocal.media stories and poems.
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My Mama can Beat up Your Mama
MY MOM CAN BEAT UP YOUR MOM Well, not really. I just wanted to catch your attention and get you to read about my mother. In fact she would be horrified to see my title because it is so far afield and such a mischaracterization of her. I should be ashamed of myself, but I’m not. And that’s her fault. She taught me to not be ashamed or afraid to act on my ideas.
By Cleve Taylor 5 years ago in Families
Dancing Through the Early '50s
Dancing Through the Early “50’s Got time for a little time travel? I hearken back to the days before I-pods, CD’s, Walkmen, 8-Tracks, tapes, stereo, and even LP records. Music was live, on the radio, on records, or on jukeboxes. By the mid 50’s forty-five rpm records were the height of technology and adapters were needed to adapt them to spindles built for 98 rpm records. Those records were a buck apiece at a time when kids were lucky to make 50 cents an hour and many adults were making only $1 an hour.
By Cleve Taylor 5 years ago in Beat
A Labor of Hercules
A Labor for Hercules When speaking of cleaning our oceans, the old advice of “an ounce of prevention” applies. Had government and the press effectively interceded at a critical moment, not only would Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” have resulted in the banning of DDT, but it would have stopped the dumping of over 25,000 barrels of DDT tainted toxic waste off the coast between Los Angeles and Catalina Island by a major manufacturer of DDT back in the 1970’s. And that is just the ones they know about.
By Cleve Taylor 5 years ago in Earth
Flour Sack Fashion
Flour Sack Fashions In our flour sack shirts and my mother in her flour sack dresses, I and my three brothers were in the height of fashion. My brother when asked about the advertising on his shirt used to grin and tell people that he bowled for Gold Medal Flour.
By Cleve Taylor 5 years ago in Families
The Long View
The Long View Mankind, even as cave dwellers, was motivationally incapable of keeping the caves clean. Now, as world citizens, we as a species are probably incapable of cleaning up our oceans and landmass of earth's litter and cast offs. Even space is getting filled with earth's flotsam and jetsam. Space debris is a real and growing problem.
By Cleve Taylor 5 years ago in Earth
