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Don Schofield's Blog: Notes from the Cyclops Cave

Welcome to my Blog: NOTES FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE

For my first entry I'd like to post an excerpt from the beginning of my memoir FROM THE CYCLOPS CAVE: A BRAIDED MEMOIR, so you can get a taste of the book's two different narrative strands. One is in the voice of the child I was in '50s and '60s California, and the other, my adult perspective while living in solitude in a primitive hut. On that remote Cycladic island I swam, hiked, drank homemade Read more of this blog post »

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Published on January 09, 2026 09:02 • Tags: 1950s-california, abandonment, childhood, greece, memoir

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