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SLC Volleyball Tourney Journey — Dinner Redemption After Crappy Concession

A day of girls volleyball wins on-court at the Salt Lake City Showdown was met with lackluster convention center food fare. Cutting to...

Vegas Tourney Journey — Stuck in Line at a Starbucks Edition

Special to Great Pacific Review - by Jason James Barry Why do the simplest things never work out so simply? Of course I‘m talking about...

Four Years Gone By: A Pandemic Retrospective

Notifications came from school. Early pick-up. And then, none of us knew what was next. That whole week, I had been stocking up and...

Memes, With Trolls Waiting to Pounce

There was a time, not long ago, when someone said something in passing and said it to an actual person — and that essentially was that....

An Arrest of a Cop

Twice now, and more so, I’ve been made privy to old friends or past co-workers who’ve been under arrest. The most recent was a “now...

The Where Were You Day

I had been in mid-spoonful of chewing my Cheerios, sitting on the carpet in front of the TV in the living room. My brother and my other...

A Police Investigation: Glimmers of an Old, Cold Case

When I started looking into some of my father’s old police cases, I didn’t expect to get pulled in so fully, the same way I think he did....

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