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Decades : A lot can happen in ten years
Everything seems to happen in decades.
 • John Van Dalen
To return, to linger and to remember
A house and what it contains hold many memories
 • John Van Dalen
Lonely train whistle in the night
The loneliest sound on earth is a train whistle in the night.
 • John Van Dalen
From the Memory Vault: Crystal Cave
(Written on July 13, 2002;
 • John Van Dalen
Lara’s Theme
An epic Sixties movie takes me back with regrets to my troubled adolescence and dreams deferred and lost
 • John Van Dalen
20 years after Hurricane Katrina: Some memories of New Orleans and reflections on the tragedy
I’ll never forget the morning of August 30, 2005, a day after a vicious hurricane named Katrina nearly destroyed my hometown of New Orleans, flooding 80…
 • John Van Dalen
Early newspaper days: idealism meets reality in a small college town
Many years ago I lived in a small college town in North Carolina, near a large city, but not too close.
 • John Van Dalen
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