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Ted L Glines MSW
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Have been writing since 1965, mostly rhyming verse and song lyrics, along with some free verse and prose. In the beginning years, most of my works were activist oriented and connected to the "freedom of speech" movement, with many poems published in college literary magazines and the "underground" free press (Village Voice, etc.). Having somewhat mellowed out in later years, my works now lean more toward entertainment and humor (though I am known to tackle a good cause from time to time). I'm just the gunslinger to put a bigot down. Recent projects include supporting several writers' work shop groups and assisting with a major poetry quarterly magazine, with an emphasis on helping new writers to become published. Also, on the more serious side, I am a volunteer with "WHO@," assisting victims of online abuse (see "Working to Halt Online Abuse" link below).
Life will be better when humans finally learn to play well together.
The road of life is so busy and populated by all sorts of travelers, each going from birth to the tombstone in his/her own unique way. I want to meet and talk with ALL of them, perhaps to understand them, speak their languages, and help to build bridges across yawning chasms caused by bigotry. The world of my vision is one where Christians and Pagans will work together in harmony to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and visit the sick and the prisoners. I guess you could say that I crave large goals. So did Jesus.
In the mean time (if time must be mean), I am quite content to leave the hateful debates of men alone (just leave them to devour themselves, as they will) and build a Web, a network, where your creations and my own can thrive and grow tall. If I can assist you, nothing will make me happier. My own miniscule Website (Amnesiac Memoirs) started out to simply be my own little "chapbook," and it is blossoming out to be (joyfully) , something quite deeper (with a little help from my friends).
Currently residing in New Boston, Texas, rural enough to be out of the fast-lane insanity, and peopled in a friendly way.
Here are a few interesting Weblinks for you, in the interest of networking:
The NEXT Big WRITER
Somewhat like Author's Den, except the big thing is Reviewing - you earn credits for each review you give, and it costs credits for you to post your work. Pricey at $39+ to join, but entertaining and addictive, and another good way to gain exposure for your works.
Black Widow's Window of Poetry
Dragon Blue's Poetry
The Best of Poetry
Patty's Castle
Working to Halt Online Abuse
The Daily Mews
Poetry of the Heart
The Witches' Voice
And some cherished Friends:
Philip Paul Sacco
CJ Heck
Debra J Harmes-Kurth
Sweet Purple Spirit G.- Illuminating Wild WicKed Warrior!
Dennis N Griffin
John V Martin
Mr. Ed
"Conga" Kimmy
Patrice Anne Rutledge
Tinka Boukes
Shane Ward makes me Giggle
(Click Back to return to this Page)
Those who know me will know my fascination for research. Recently completed is a data base of hate groups masquerading as Christian organizations. (Review it HERE) These groups' activities range from criminal to terrorism, all in the name of Jesus and Christianity. We need to pay more attention to them.
Birth Place: Long Beach, CA USA
Accomplishments: Human Development B.A. Degree.
California Convict (1959 - 1969) thereafter working with local, state, and federal (Secret Service) law enforcement to make life safer for you (and me) on the streets.
Director of M-2/Match-Two Mentoring Outreach
Texas, a 501(c)(3)non-profit restorative justice organization.
Christian/Pagan (not as difficult as it may sound, as a bridge across the bigotry of our times) working hand in hand with Jesus who spent His life working with Roman killers, thieves, prostitutes, Pagans, recalcitrant Jews, robbers, always turning them to serve His Father, and He never would have dreamed that "Christians" might evolve ...
Practicing social worker (NASW member)
Member of American Correctional Association (ACA)
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Short Stories
Answer by Ted L Glines MSW
In an imperfect world, problems over-run solutions. People get upset and frustrated, and they scream for answers, even when they never ask the right questions....
Internet Knight by Ted L Glines MSW
This is a true story. Details have not been altered to protect the predator. ...
Tiny by Ted L Glines MSW
This story started, as many do, with a fantasy tale to entertain Patty. I love to make her laugh. For some reason, after laughing, she said that I made it up. No one believes me any more ...
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Small World by Ted L Glines MSW
Beware -- if you write something -- someone might read it! ...
Long-Range Love by Ted L Glines MSW
I am usually not good at making up fantasies, so the art of love-stories has always been beyond me. The following is a real love story and I hope you like it, for I can do no better....
Crime Stopper by Ted L Glines MSW
Can you say "Crime is bad"? Sure you can. How about prisons and terrorists? No? You do not like those, either. Maybe I should run for President because I have a solution for you ......
Jumbo Eggs by Ted L Glines MSW
For those of you who believe that the biggest campaign-trail issues are war, employment, economy and immigration, please consider this late-breaking super-controversy. Heck, given enough circulation, ...
Black Widow by Ted L Glines MSW
Like many times, I really do not know where this one came from. My muse must have been rowdy! Sometimes my muse is not content with sun-rises or sun-sets and love-n-light. Sometimes my muse has a bloo...
Mammoths in My Bed by Ted L Glines MSW
Right about 8:30 every morning, Patty calls me. Mammoths are pretty scarce out here in East Texas. So are beaches, but I do not let that stop me. I love to hear her laugh, so I am sometimes able to en...
Beer Run to Texarkana by Ted L Glines MSW
As silly as it sounds, this is simply a slice of my 23 Feb 2008 life. Patty called and I read the rough draft to her and she laughed. So ......
Lam Esen's Tome by Ted L Glines MSW
Devotees of Skatsimi magic will surely hush and bow very low to the olde arcane wisdom given here. Others may chuckle ...
NOTE: This piece is part of a special Diablo II series which is being publ...
Osama's Wish by Ted L Glines MSW
This was sent to me by Becky (MistyDawn) in 2004. I just now ran across it and it screamed to be shared!...
Crackers-n-Milk by Ted L Glines MSW
Isn't it odd, the strange little things which forever stay in memory ......
Lord of Destruction by Ted L Glines MSW
Don''t hate me too much for leaving this story waiting for an ending. Good and evil will battle on. "We will win" makes us wonder who "we" is ......
Life Quality by Ted L Glines MSW
We grow older, not necessarily wiser, and our tools continue to be honed for ... what ......
Obsession by Ted L Glines MSW
You can be as serious as you want to be about life. You can be grim and miss all the fun of life. But even in the midst of the fun ... there are monsters. ...
Dear Sister by Ted L Glines MSW
Suppose you had a dear sister whose life was built on faith and dreams, and too many times you have helped her weather the storms of dreams that crashed - if you saw her (again) going blissfully into ...
Nigerian Scam by Ted L Glines MSW
We plunk down a dollar on a LOTTO ticket which might win us $Millions$ but we are not terribly disappointed when we simply lose the dollar. I am stunned that educated Americans will fall for the old N...
Jokes by Ted L Glines MSW
I am sure that most of the jokes in this compilation had their invention in the halls of schools where kids mill about and entertain each other. One of them (the fly) was brought to me by a high schoo...
Psychotic Frig by Ted L Glines MSW
So you like H.P. Lovecraft? Hah! Cthulhu has NOTHING on my refrigerator! And we are talking Ted''s Revenge ......
Praise The Lord by Ted L Glines MSW
Ya gotta love the Believers and the Non-Believers, raging back and forth, neither one having any proof to back themselves up, but it is all in the punch line ... and this one gave me a very big lift t...
Britney by Ted L Glines MSW
A child prodigy born to parents who were trailer trash - pushed by family greed and paparrazi greed - becomes whatever she can become - until her continued survival is questioned ......
Life Changes by Ted L Glines MSW
One of the many advantages of growing old is the ability to look back in wonderment at your life-changes across all those decades. Wisdom comes when you do not view the past as those “good ole days,” ...
On The Edge by Ted L Glines MSW
This is a true story. Only the names of the law enforcement officials have been changed to protect their positions....
Po Folks by Ted L Glines MSW
When comparing the Haves versus the Have-Nots, it is important to consider how much each values what they have......
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Poetry
DreamDiet by Ted L Glines MSW
This came out of a conversation with Patty this morning; deep intellectual stuff ......
Vinny the Vulture by Ted L Glines MSW
The other night at my hotel, I saw the most horrible thing. This elderly lady came in, and her face was so caked with makeup that she looked like a clown. And an old man checked in (looked to be in hi...
Death Song by Ted L Glines MSW
According to the Shaman tales, a baby is born with an animal spirit. When the child learns to speak and think, a human spirit enters in. All through life, your animal guide walks with your human soul....
Six by Ted L Glines MSW
Do you wonder if things go "bump" in the night? Why wonder? Just ask me! Sure, things go "bump" in the night. That should make ya feel better ......
Tears by Ted L Glines MSW
This one came to me while watching the end of "The Karate Kid" ......
Rascally Cheater by Ted L Glines MSW
Statistics, averages resulting from research and polls, rule our lives because they are used to develop public policies. When the policies don''t work, we blame the politicians. Fact is, the policies ...
ExtenZe by Ted L Glines MSW
This ad plays most of the commercial breaks, all night long on the American Movie Channel. The ad is cute since it really makes no specific claim. In "Life According to Ted," it might go like this ......
AfterLife Insurance by Ted L Glines MSW
This started off as a humorous piece, but it took on its own voice and got darkly serious. My muse has her own ways....
Rough Rap by Ted L Glines MSW
I just happened to be thinking of this guy I knew many years ago back home. He was big and he acted mean. People steered clear of him when he strutted down the street with his fists balled up. He went...
Disabled One? by Ted L Glines MSW
This is a true story, a case I am currently closing on HaltAbuse.org. The heroine is a girl who society brands as disabled, but, as we shall see ......
Life Insurance by Ted L Glines MSW
This really is for those who do not have a spouse or kids to care for when they pass away. The cadaver is the only one who fails to appeciate a funeral (please give the flowers while I am alive). This...
Haunted by Ted L Glines MSW
Inspired, if you can call it that, by something in a very old Don Knotts movie watched in the middle of the night. Nothing really goes "bump" in the night, does it?...
Hearing Light by Ted L Glines MSW
“I stood at a walled-up doorway, knocking gently at first, then slamming my fists against the stones, demanding answers, wanting reasons, screaming: 'You can't hide! Let me in! Tell me the truth! L...
Snake Oil by Ted L Glines MSW
Abdi-Noor inspired this one with his wonderful questing idealism. And Georg with his "snake oil." Mephistopheles is the pic - quite fitting....
Enemy by Ted L Glines MSW
This one is poetry and prose, with quoted discussions playing counterpoint to elements of poetry which all lead to the final simplistic stanza....
Coming Back by Ted L Glines MSW
Which is better, to be a king or to be homeless? Maybe it depends on who is doing the "be"ing. Ah, well, there is only one way you would ever be given such a choice ......
Cruel and Unusual by Ted L Glines MSW
If I found a murderer, I would put him in the hands of the family of the person he had killed, and they could exact their chosen retribution on him. Yes, this is a tribal way of dealing with a murdere...
Ain't it Awful by Ted L Glines MSW
“Dissident” does not really rhyme with “President” but I reserve the privilege of breaking a benign rule now and then. As a young man, in the 1950s and 1960s, I broke tougher rules, being one of the w...
Casa de Nuez by Ted L Glines MSW
I usually do not use foreign phrasing, but "Nut House" seemed not to be such a good title. It started out being "Casa de Macademia," which made no sense at all. Finally, my free translator software ga...
Tick-Tock by Ted L Glines MSW
Ha! Written for Fee and Georg, bless their souls, for surviving their hospital visits. I hope that Georg realizes that nine out of ten doctors agree that a blood pressure of 57/23 is not a good thing....
Bells of Life by Ted L Glines MSW
If life is all around each of us every day, and reality is real for all of us, why is it that our reactions/responses to life are so radically different? We all hear the same bells but the sound is in...
Client Ten by Ted L Glines MSW
In a way, this one is written for my friend, Georg Mateos. We are both idealist hawks who do not like the way our people are being preyed upon. This is one of those "timely" poems which will lose its ...
Rain Rain Rain by Ted L Glines MSW
This poem threatened to be a run-on, sort of like the storm which moved across East Texas this morning, so I used a modified limerick trick to final it; bring it to closure. Not sure it worked. You be...
Persian Blog by Ted L Glines MSW
Last night, after watching a C-SPAN political panel discussion about why America''s program to bring religious freedom to Iranis was bogged down, I went and browsed a few Irani blogs (lots of them in ...
Love Light by Ted L Glines MSW
14 Feb 2008. Snow and ice in western Kentucky. She was walking her dog. Slipped and fell and hit her head. She called me from the Emergency Room, not wishing for me to worry. Then, as I knew she would...
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Articles
Authors Market Connection by Ted L Glines MSW
Does it matter if you keep your keywords (on each work) updated? You bet it does! I am very diligent about doing this. Result? When I type my name into the Google browser, many pages of my works are l...
Rhetoric Flambe' by Ted L Glines MSW
Almost got my tongue stuck in my cheek when I put this one in the Cooking/Food/Wine category. Someday, God will get me for that!...
N-Files 24Apr08 by Ted L Glines MSW
Breathes there an Internet soul so lucky as to never have received a Nigerian hoax email? Some Americans fall for these things. Many others simply delete them. Me? I like to do something about them. P...
Democratization by Ted L Glines MSW
Where is there a solid definition, a codex, which will tell us that democracy is better than theocracy? Better for whom? It is better to study the needs of people rather than ignoring them in favor of...
New Day - Old Ways by Ted L Glines MSW
Simply two excerpts from a Website discussion/debate. I become involved in such talks because I care....
Pills Pills Pills by Ted L Glines MSW
Before reading this short piece, go take a look in your medicine cabinet. Then, the reading may make you feel worse or better ......
Solutions for America by Ted L Glines MSW
When I attended high school, I remember being bored to death by completing assignments in one hour and then waiting until next week for the next assignment. That was 5+ decades ago for me. I interview...
Poets - Publishing Opportunity by Ted L Glines MSW
We love to watch the growth of friends. Some of you already know Debra J Harmes-Kurth, excellent poet and past editor/publisher of Art With Words. Now we see Deb resurfacing as the editor of Laurels, ...
Political Oops by Ted L Glines MSW
My Yaqui grandmother taught me to never lie. She said a lie turned into a ghost and it would haunt you. A politician can be a liar successfully -- until he is caught in a lie. After he is caught, he h...
ISP Complaints by Ted L Glines MSW
For those who encounter turbulance when flying those usually friendly Internet skies ... here is a new tool for your protection. Be safe....
Postal Crisis by Ted L Glines MSW
I think it was back in the 1980s, the United States Postal Service was designated as a self-supporting government agency. This sounded good at the time ......
New War Epiphany by Ted L Glines MSW
Our war in Iraq, with vague goals, has no exit strategy. And it remains a war on terrorist recruits rather than a war on terror. Discussions about this are endless and pointless. With this article, I ...
Techno-Suicide by Ted L Glines MSW
"Americans always do the right thing, but only after exhausting all other possibilities." ~Author Unknown but appreciated...
12 Million Illegals by Ted L Glines MSW
There are 12 million illegal immigrants living among us. We know this fact very well. Federal agencies are working toward closing our borders. State and federal policy-makers are working to reduce thi...
Witches by Ted L Glines MSW
This little piece was written as part of an online discussion between a Christian and a "witch." We are glad that it is no longer A.D. 1467, even though we seem not to have learned much since then ......
Stalking Victims by Ted L Glines MSW
Patty has told me about the four times she has been stalked. Two of them are not worth mentioning; just men who were momentarily obsessed. But there was the carnival guy (that one got exciting) and th...
CyberStalking Help by Ted L Glines MSW
The CyberStalker has an obsession. His obsession is YOU. He wants for you to be afraid, very very afraid. He starts with scary e-mails or frightening messages in chat. Then he escalates to scarin...
America Energized by Ted L Glines MSW
About the campaign primaries of 2008, commentators are remarking that this is the biggest voter response in the history of America. Prisoners in a dank dungeon struggle with each other and die in hope...
Iraqi Intelligents by Ted L Glines MSW
Our elected officials need to be vetted to make sure that they have what we farmers call an "uncanny grasp of the obvious." Horse sense? Maybe we need Donald Trump to be president. "You''re fired!" ...
Poppies Poppies Poppies by Ted L Glines MSW
What do you visualize when you hear the word "hemp"? Rope? Yes. How about "poppies"? Pretty flower which looks good in the lapel of a veteran. Take these two words to Southeast Asia and Southwest Asia...
Ideals in Reality by Ted L Glines MSW
Ideals are wonderful things and idealists are wonderful people ......
Wrong Teaching by Ted L Glines MSW
Sometimes (not often) the university education, and the excellent vocabulary, fails to reveal the proper word which conveys a concept. Once in a blue moon, we find that only a back-alley cuss-word wil...
Prejudicial Bias by Ted L Glines MSW
The past fifty years has been an unending battle against racial prejudice, beginning in the violence and trauma of the 1960s and continuing into the subtle war we wage today ... and we dare to hope th...
State Department Briefing by Ted L Glines MSW
We hear it on the Beltway, in the Halls of Congress, on CNN, CBS and Fox News -- this call to action -- this constant move to spend days and weeks and months and years (and billions of dollars) INVEST...
Horoscope by Ted L Glines MSW
We sometimes read the Horoscopes for light entertainment. I have studied Astrology. I can do Natal and Progressed charts, but I would NEVER do a chart for a Zodiac-Believer. Never! Fun is one thing. O...
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News
Worms and Spyders by Ted L Glines MSW
Here at AD, it was an "interesting" weekend......
HaltAbuse Graduation by Ted L Glines MSW
There once was an author who involved herself with a literary agency - a business relationship which turned ugly. Her story may be seen on HaltAbuse.org (link below). My story is about how her solutio...
Poets - Publishing Op by Ted L Glines MSW
Introducing "Laurels" which has been going strong for ten years. Print magazine, quarterly, with wide readership. Just the place to give your poems the exposure they deserve....
IRS Rebate Fraud Alert by Ted L Glines MSW
Here we have the big tax rebate coming. Wouldn't you know that the predators would smell blood and circle in for the kill. Still, I was surprised when I heard the below on National Public Radio when I...
Bragging Rights! by Ted L Glines MSW
Bragging is not my style, but ......
Saddam Hussein executed by Ted L Glines MSW
End of a bad boy, beginning of ......
Merry Christmas by Ted L Glines MSW
Whether it be Happy Yule, Blessed Solstice, Merry Christmas, or Happy Holidays ......
Art With Words by Ted L Glines MSW
Good publishing opportunity for you poets....
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Links
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A fairly new site which is attracting experienced and published authors. I am assisting with development.
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Working to Halt Online Abuse
A volunteer organization which assists victims of online abusers, harassers, and stalkers.
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Amnesiac Memoirs
My own little online chapbook. Now evolving to help writers to market their works, plus support of hot projects. If you have a book to sell, or need some promotion, I will love to include a page for you! Please sign the Guestbook!
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Additional information
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| My primary passions are networking and marketing, attacking bigots (bigots make such good targets), helping people to promote their best causes and works, closely followed by Website development and publishing. And, obviously, poetry! |
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Contact
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Amnesiac's Memoirs
1024 N Center Best Western Inn of New Boston
New Boston
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Work phone: 903-628-6999
Fax: 903-628-6999
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