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Steven Ivory: Stop Me If I’ve Told You This

*Outer space is filled with stuff: Empty fuel tanks, giant O-rings, dead satellites,  crystalized human urine—that’s just some of the debris left floating in...

Steven Ivory: My New Hero is a Horse

*Step aside Marvel and D.C. There’s a new protagonist in the universe of superheroes.  He’s real, not fantasy, and his only superpower is an...

Steven Ivory: ‘Operators Are Standing By’ and Other Words That Rule Our Lives

*I was headed for the kitchen when the network TV news anchor shifted to a somber tone. “Warning,” he said, his expression effectively empathetic,...

Steven Ivory: What Becomes of the Kiss?

*While in bed channel-surfing one pandemic evening, I came across an episode of “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.,” the 1960s comedy TV series starring Jim Nabors,...

Steven Ivory: The Almighty Public School Cinnamon Roll

*The Delta variant. Politics. Afghanistan. Hurricanes. The general uncertainty of life itself. Sometimes, it feels like the world is on its way to hell...

Steven Ivory: To Those Who Have Not Been Vaccinated

*To those of you who, for whatever reason, refuse to get the Covid vaccine: I know exactly where you’re coming from.  I may not...

Steven Ivory: The Bright Side of a Pandemic

*“He’s back from New York,” she murmured into her cell. Forty-something and masked, she  slowly pushed her shopping cart down the nearly barren cereal...

Steven Ivory: For a Moment, Justice

*“Well, that’s enough guilty for me,” said my buddy after the second “guilty.”  He mumbled it almost to himself, with the kind of anxiety-glazed...

Steven Ivory: Our Mask Mentality

*March 14, 2020. Afternoon. That’s the first time I wore one. My L.A. neighborhood Whole Foods wouldn’t have it any other way. Striding across the...

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