GRANDMA'S WORLD for Saturday, September 20, 2003

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Saturday, September 20, 2003

I've met some wild and fascinating and powerful people in my time and have

tried to capture the wilder ones in small snapshot descriptions in my next few posts. My life is so boring and yet I've met some real National Geographic characters all over the place and want you to know them, too. So that their stories don't die with me, I blog them here. The first one posted last night at about three a.m. is about Michael, Miguel, a renegade fisherman and writer living in Mexico with the best dog that I ever knew, as far as Full Living, Full Flying and Free Ranging dogs lives... Sign in to see full entry.

Snapshots of a Wild Gringo fisherman in Mexico and his wild dog Waterboy.

MIGUEL AND WATERBOY: A STORY Michael wanted to be Hemingway and Waterboy just wanted to do it all. They both lived very full lives, free to be themselves, with no real rules, no visible ties. Decades ago I was introduced to a fellow dating one of my most interesting employees. He was a gringo living down in Rocky Point, Puerto Penasco, Mexico. He called himself a writer, owned an ancient, pound the keys, upright typewriter. He used it often. I never read one of his stories, but I listened... Sign in to see full entry.

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