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Why I Do Not Use Dairy
I am from Canada and grew up in the small city of St. Catharines, Ontario. We considered it a treat to go out on a Sunday afternoon to a...

Briar Mitchell
Oct 31, 20234 min read
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She Has A Name
While I was working on my book - Serial Killers: Then & Now, I got a phone call late one night from Keith Hunter Jesperson, also known...

Briar Mitchell
Oct 3, 20233 min read
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Memories of 9/11
I was living in Los Angeles when the Twin Towers were hit. In the mornings, I would get to work really early, well before 6 am, just to...

Briar Mitchell
Sep 10, 20233 min read
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You Spelled Your Name Wrong?
I have an unusual name. It isn’t that odd though. It is not like no one has ever heard it before. In the fairytale by the Grimm Brothers...

Briar Mitchell
Jun 8, 20234 min read
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To Save a Horse... YES!
During the mid 1970s, I had finished high school and embarked on my college career at Kentucky Wesleyan College, in Owensboro, Kentucky....

Briar Mitchell
Jun 7, 20238 min read
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Duck and Cover!
In 1961, I started school. It was a wondrous, magical time of dressing up to go to class, meeting so many other kids, playing games in...

Briar Mitchell
May 4, 20233 min read
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The Night I Met Joe Perry
I got a call one day from a friend of mine. She had written a review about a new hot sauce for a popular culinary magazine out of Boston....

Briar Mitchell
Apr 30, 20234 min read
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Where The Day Takes Us 01
For most of us, we start our day, go about our business and sometimes we come across people or situations that truly take us by surprise....

Briar Mitchell
Apr 29, 20233 min read
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Not In My Lifetime
I am a Vegan and have been for a long time (23 years as of 2023) and feel I can finally put these strong feelings into words here and not...

Briar Mitchell
Apr 5, 20233 min read
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Tasty Styrofoam
When I was a kid, sugary cereals were all the rage! My brothers, sisters and I would badger my mom until she brought home boxes and boxes...

Briar Mitchell
Apr 3, 20232 min read
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My Mom and Gregory Peck
My mother was an elegant woman. Highly educated, quite beautiful and she had this casual, graceful way of moving that caused even total...

Briar Mitchell
Mar 28, 20233 min read
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A Cold Mystery
Our goal that chilly morning, in Livingston, California, was to search for any human remains that might still be at the location where...

Briar Mitchell
Mar 17, 20234 min read
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Turn Left at Mars then Straight on Down the Milky Way
And then, one day, I headed over to Paramount Studios to meet a friend of mine who was working as a production assistant on a new show in...

Briar Mitchell
Feb 28, 20234 min read
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Wing and a Prayer!
I was so fortunate to be able to fly to some far away and exotic locations with the US Air Force. In 1994 I flew with the 22nd Air Lift...

Briar Mitchell
Sep 9, 20226 min read
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Oh...That Darned Clint!
Living in Los Angeles can certainly provide entertaining events in what would be a normal and mundane day. I lived there for 23 years and...

Briar Mitchell
May 8, 20225 min read
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Is This What Cleopatra Saw?
I stood there, absolutely frozen in place, because I was sure if I even breathed I was dead. There was a cobra, a real live cobra, hood...

Briar Mitchell
Mar 24, 20224 min read
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How Do You Hide a Moose?
New England in the fall, is a treasure trove of gorgeous sights and sounds for those who head north to drink it all in. I have had the...

Briar Mitchell
Oct 9, 20213 min read
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Deadly BABY!
Along the way, during the 40 plus years of my career as an illustrator and writer, I worked for Knowledge Adventure, a company, owned by...

Briar Mitchell
Sep 26, 20212 min read
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My BFF Stanley!
So, today it is RAINY. Usually, during these lovely winter months, Florida remains very dry, but, because of El Nino weather patterns, it...

Briar Mitchell
Jul 22, 20212 min read
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Little Bits of Gratitude
Have you ever had one of those days, when, a memory sneaks into your thoughts? Perhaps, something you had not thought about in ages?...

Briar Mitchell
Apr 19, 20214 min read
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