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The Starting Gate

A Cocktail of Working, Drinking, Family and Zen

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The Starting Gate

By: Paul Mullin
Narrated by: Paul Mullin
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In 13 chapters Paul Mullin mixes up a potent cocktail of working, drinking, family and Zen.

It all starts - where else? - at the Starting Gate: a shit-kicker country bar in Northern Maryland where the author first started working at the age of 13, and where his boss once shot a man dead for trying to rob the local drug store. Other jobs follow, like when he works as the only white kid on an all-black labor crew at the National Archives, or the years he spends as a high-rise window cleaner in Manhattan.

An essential primer for anyone interested in Zen and/or cocktails, or for anyone who enjoys a good story as if told from the next barstool over.

©2015 Paul Mullin (P)2016 Paul Mullin
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