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Michael's Newsletter April 2025
Michael Barrington Hi Everybody, I am delighted to announce the publication of my latest novel, Four Mile House, a story of four couples:...

Michael Barrington
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News Letter
Michael’s Musings Hi Everybody, Thank you for buying and reading my books and to my many new friends who found me by reading my short...

Michael Barrington
Mar 311 min read
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High Stakes Lawyer
Oakland Hell’s Angels, the Symbionese Liberation Army with their safe house in Concord, and the Chowchilla School Bus Kidnappers were...

Michael Barrington
Feb 213 min read
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Big J's Xmas Visit 11/27/24
It was just after the 7:30 AM Mass; the Bishop had just gone into the sacristy and on the life-sized crucifix hanging on the back wall of...

Michael Barrington
Nov 25, 202413 min read
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A Veteran's almost unbelieveable story 10/27/24
Somebody once wrote that there is a book in each of us waiting to be written, and veteran Marine Staff Sergeant Mark Clifford, from the...

Michael Barrington
Oct 27, 20244 min read
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From Displaced Persons' camp to World Champion 10/01
The story of how a young boy from Lithuania, Victor (Vytas) Palciauskas, living in a Displaced Persons’ Camp in Augsburg, Germany for...

Michael Barrington
Sep 30, 20243 min read
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In Clayton Gloria Does it All 09/03/24
It’s rare in 2024 to find somebody living almost off the grid and close to downtown! Gloria Utley lives in a home built in 1890 sitting...

Michael Barrington
Aug 31, 20243 min read
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The Last Omaha Beach, D-Day Survivor 06/20/24
Having written two books about World War II, I couldn’t wait to meet Papa Jake Larson, almost one hundred and two years old and one of...

Michael Barrington
Jul 2, 20244 min read
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Turkmenistan: A Bay Area Visit 05/25/24
Four men and two women from Turkmenistan, five of them journalists, aged between twenty six and thirty six, have just spent a week as...

Michael Barrington
May 27, 20244 min read
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Turkmenistan: A Country Uncovered 04/20/24
Turkmenistan: A closed country revealed Part I. Few people in the USA have heard of Turkmenistan, a sparsely populated and poorly known...

Michael Barrington
Apr 22, 20243 min read
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Ekphrasis: What I see in this painting. 03/13/23
“At D1” “Well, what do you think?” Smiley asked, looking straight ahead, his eyes never deviating from the port side red light on the...

Michael Barrington
Mar 14, 20244 min read
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Silk: An amazing read. 02/12/24
SILK Silk is a startling, sensual, hypnotically compelling novella about a French silk merchant, Herve Jancour’s several dangerous...

Michael Barrington
Feb 11, 20242 min read
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Stonehenge: A Quick Visit 01/14/24
An icy November wind swirled the dense mist over the Salisbury Plains almost obscuring Stonehenge. Professor Isaac Cedric Effingham,...

Michael Barrington
Jan 15, 20249 min read
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The Shannike (Storyteller)
It all happened because of Dair Dockery. If he hadn’t been in Tulsk that day and if the skies hadn’t opened, forcing him to spend the...

Michael Barrington
Dec 2, 20239 min read
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Writers I Dream About! 11/03
As a shy fifteen-year-old schoolboy, I was often the unfortunate victim of having to stand before the class and read my short stories out...

Michael Barrington
Nov 1, 20235 min read
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Whatever Happened to My Quotation Marks? 10/10/23
I have just finished reading my third novel by Sally Rooney, followed by Cormac McCarthy’s latest, Stella Maris and I’d like to report...

Michael Barrington
Oct 10, 20233 min read
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Not Just Your Average Dentist! 09/01/23
Dr. Reza Khazaie is simply an amazing character. While his Willow Pass Dental Care offices, on Willow Pass Road in Concord, is bustling...

Michael Barrington
Sep 1, 20233 min read
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65 Countries and Counting! 07/04
Concord Rotarian, Extraordinary Humanitarian to 65 Countries and Counting David King. As he daily walks his rescued Tibetan terrier...

Michael Barrington
Jul 4, 20235 min read
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Artificial Intelligence, the New Apocalypse? 06/15/23
Is this the new Apocalypse for writers? The start of a new conversation. Some months ago, a short article on the internet piqued my...

Michael Barrington
Jun 15, 20234 min read
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Afghan Interpreter Part II 05/20
An Afghan interpreter’s Escape. Part II It was 7:30 AM when they arrived at Al Udeid airbase in Qatar. Even at that early hour it was...

Michael Barrington
Jun 11, 20234 min read
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