S T O R I E S

True and False

by Ben Oostdam

NOTE:

At the suggestion of my egregious editor Erika I have split my stories into three separate categories; within each category, they are now arranged alphabetic and by keyword. The "old" list below still serves for chronological and numerical sequence. So, if you want to select a specific category or keyword , please go to (click on) one of the following links:

OWN stories

GUEST stories

COMMENTARIES

p.s. needs updating, sorry...

Angkor - November 12, 1956

Black Coral on Molokini - May, 1966 (unfinished)

Bloopers - collected by BLO 1989-1997

Lava Surfers of To-O-Bria - January 8, 1990

Bay Swinger - August 8, 1993

Trapped . . . - February 1, 1994

Horseback Riding with the Bank - December 10, 1999

A Tend(er) Lecture by Mr. Moll - December 15, 1999

The Importance of Mr. Dunlop's Balls - December 18, 1999

Thai Fish and Shellfish on Stamps - March 2, 2001

Vietnam, November, 1956 - March 26, 2002

Mineralogy - July 12, 2002

The Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra - September 25, 2002

Gravitas - September 29, 2002

Aye Aye - October 1, 2002

Japanese Students - October 1, 2002

Ryokan - October 1, 2002

Topless revisited - October 6, 2002

Serendipity, part 1: Clarence Tarzwell - November 12, 2002

Serendipity, part 2: Khalid Hamid - November 12, 2002

Serendipity, part 3: Liberia - November 27, 2002

I perform a Miracle (in Kuwait) - February 21, 2003

Chicken Cambodja - October 9, 2003

The Delaware Bay Marine Science Center - December 5, 2003

Can You Eat It ? - December 5, 2003

Family Jewels - December 5, 2003

Foresight re 9/11 ? - December 5, 2003

Inman's U's-ful course - December 5, 2003

I invented the BONGO NET ! - December 29, 2003

Real Estate Lancaster County, PA, 2004 - February 25, 2004

Call me "ORGAN" . . . - February 25, 2004

HERE - February 25, 2004

Cleanliness Prohibited ! - February 25, 2004

Dream of March 18, 2004 - March 18, 2004

THAI - April 17, 2004

A Million Dollars a Yard - April 17, 2004

Bird in Hand - April 28, 2004

Seasick - August 11, 2004

Thoughts on Stamps - August 22, 2004

Holland behind Bars - August 23, 2004

By bike from Holland to France, 1950 - August 23, 2004

Infinitely long marriage - August 27, 2004

Reconciling in Chinese - August 27, 2004

Twister - August 27, 2004

Lexa and the Magic Fish Tanks - September 5, 2004

James Joyce and the hazards of OCR - September 6, 2004

Why I became a U.S. citizen - September 7, 2004

Go Fly A ~~Kite~~ Kid ! - September 30, 2004

Tale of The Banker's Wife - September 25, 2002 (sic, or sick)

OUCH ! - September 2002 and September 29, 2004

WW II Emergency Stove - October 2003 and September 30, 2004; addition: September 10, 2005

Serendipity, part 4: USVI - October 10 & 17, 2004

Serendipity, part 5: Captain Cook - October 18/19, 2004

Trial - October 23, 2004

Fish(ing) Stories - November 13, 2004

Falling Up - November 16, 2004

Septuple D - April 1, 2003 & November 22, 2004

The TRAILER: Mobile Marine Laboratory - November 22, 2004

The Rantings of the Mad Dutchman - Dec 11, 1991 & Nov 26, 2004

Short Thrift - December 4,2004

Anti - Serendipity - December 12,2004

The Ingbaltest - December 13,2004

Variations on "Appalachians" - December 14,2004

President Bush, my grandson Paul and spelling at Conestoga Elementary - December 18, 2004

The Grammar School Beast - Dec.5, 1944 and Dec.20, 2004

A Good Understander - December 24,2004

Tsunami and Responsibility - December 29,2004

Supplementary Note on Tsunami - January 3,2005

Ode to my Sweater /Ode aan mijn trui - Feb.17, 1952 - July 16. 1998 - Jan.10, 2005

Little Thumbie - January 19, 2005

Some Dutch Idiosyncrasies - 19970710, 20001106 and Jan.20, 2005

The Marine Science Consortium (18 pages aboyt first ten years) - 198701xx, 19990208, 199903yy and Jan.20, 2005

Pikiran2 and van Overeem - January 25, 2005

Shepard Vindicated - January 25, 2005

My Website - February 12, 2005

Alleged Deleterious Effects of Sewage Sludge Dumping on Oysters ;o] - Feb 13, 2005 redone June 23, 2010

My Last Day in Ireland - June 8, 2004 and Feb.18, 2005

Conestoga Trip with Paul - 1995 and Feb.23, 2005

Heart Specialist Scare - February 27, 2005

E - vocative Brief - February 28, 2005

Role Model - May28, 2000 and March 1, 2005

Coastal Zone Management, Erongo Region Namibia, 1997 - March 6, 2005

PA 230, on Sunday, March 13, 2005 - March 14-16, 2005

Breakfast - March 23, 2005

My Mother's Orange Notebook - April 18/9, 2005

Ne Raboti Bulbank ! - July 10, 2005

My first ocean dive - July 18, 2005 (20021028)

Is Boka Kotor a Fjord ? - September 13, 2005

Would I qualify for the Guinness Book of Records? - September 19, 2005; July 4, 2004

Mistaken Identity - October 19, 2005; July 10, 1999

Mushroom Delirium - October 24, 2005

Passing the Time of Day - October 29, 2005

Louis Murray, Chief Geologist, Anglo American Corp. - Nov 5, 2005; April 11, 2004

VEMA Seamount Expedition, November 9-18, 1964 - November 9, 2005
[to commemorate launching dates of HMS "Marauder",in 1938 (renamed to "Emerson K" in 1958),
as well as the VEMA expedition in 1964]

Lobsters Galore - November 9, 2005

EPA Perciacepsion and Bioterrorism - November 18, 2005

The HIPPO and The TORTOISE - November 20, 2005

Eel consumption - November 25, 2005

Helicopter Sampling - November 26, 2005

The Harrisburg Peneplain - December 2, 2005

Sycamores in China - December 9, 2005

New Words and Foreign Words - December 13, 2005

Arthur Fiedler on the Roof - December 15, 2005

Like Father like Son - December 31, 2005

Adventures in Alexandria and Cairo - January 14, 2006

Tales of my Dad - January 16, 2006