Satisfaction Stories

  I told him simply that he should go and inform himself better, before trying to con someone into signing papers they didn’t want to sign. By then, they still weren’t aware that I had a law firm (actually two) covering me, so he asked me to return the papers if I didn’t want to sign them, and they would decide if it was the case to let me read the will – which they wanted me to declare I had read and understood – and the...

I suppose I am what many would call a left wing intellectual, although that is a much abused term. Certainly I have spent most of my life in academia and the laboratory, and by no means could I be called an artisan. However, although my parents were middle class — respectively a civil servant and a primary school secretary — I was the first in modern times to go to university. This was at a time in the UK when only 5% of...

Today I walked out of Walmart. I had in hand some coverlets for my bed that were on sale. Also, my prescription for a tooth gel my dentist wants me to use. I have been using it for a year and it seems to be working to keep my teeth in shape. I don't want to wear false teeth as the previous generation often did. I see my dentist every six months and I will do so forever. I had parked around the end of the building, so I wo...

Decisions to make, not knowing which?Bring into full light, for everyone to see?Wonton real desires, real factual needs?Bury back again, dark, deep maybe at sea? Feeling of something foreign,within my mouth be tasted.Desires can they be realized, do they need forever wasted? Can one chocolate satisfy,do I consume them all? Will a box full gratify,do I dare seize the call? Will I be happy with just a taste?Will I fall into...