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15/05/2024

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07/04/2024

Tournament food is usually horrible food. Why did I think this time would be different? Read the latest food review by Jason James Barry on Great Pacific Review!

A day of girls volleyball wins on-court at the Salt Lake City Showdown was met with lackluster convention center food fare. Cutting to the quick, the “chicken fingers with fries” did the job intended — namely staving off starvation. But at $11 — and arriving as three scrawny breaded chicken ...

24/03/2024

When volleyball, Vegas and coffee converge. Read the latest from Jason James Barry on Great Pacific Review!

Special to Great Pacific Review - by Jason James BarryWhy do the simplest things never work out so simply? Of course I‘m talking about coffee. And in all places — Las Vegas. And at all moments — en route to a full morning of girls volleyball games. Last year I had cracked the code on all this,...

15/03/2024

Believe it or not, we’ve hit the anniversary of the lockdowns that spanned our country and the world. Read “Four Years Gone By: A Pandemic Retrospective” by Jason James Barry on GPR.

https://www.greatpacificreview.com/post/four-years-gone-by-a-pandemic-retrospective

Notifications came from school. Early pick-up. And then, none of us knew what was next. That whole week, I had been stocking up and standing in long supermarket lines. It seemed like all of us were. But when that day came, none of us knew what was next. The middle school had let out early that morni...

20/02/2024

Sage advice:

Or… or it could completely demoralize you. Since seeing steaming garbage get published — yet yours can’t find its way out from a literary agent’s toilet bowl — would be the final nail in the coffin of a once hopeful writing career.

16/02/2024

For all the volleyball families headed to KC this weekend, I’ve got you covered on food. Enjoy! And let’s go WAVE!

The trick to a successful journey is figuring out where the hell it is you’re going. And in my return to Kansas City, I’ve been enjoying the spoils from my stumbles before. The last time here was 2022, at the tail end of COVID restrictions (it’s Missouri, not Kansas, by the way). And I was imm...

21/01/2024

Ever respond to a FB meme and have to deal with a brouhaha after? Read “Memes, With Trolls Waiting to Pounce” by Jason James Barry on Great Pacific Review.

There was a time, not long ago, when someone said something in passing and said it to an actual person — and that essentially was that. Then what ensued was a full-on conversation, or sometimes an argument, or occasionally a fat lip. But people spoke their truths and generally stood by it. Now tho...

15/01/2024

In reflection of a great man during a time of great need. Read “The MLK Dream Revisited” on Great Pacific Review.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr… The need for his words rings truer and louder now, in times when divides by race have been grasped and wielded as the cudgel for political ends. In Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963, he shared the dream most of us still dream of — GPR Editorial “I Have A Dream”...

19/12/2023

Who likes books and discussing them? (book link in comments)

12/12/2023

A great author interview just out:

a Buzzard Digital interview with author Jason James Barry Buzzard Digital: You wrote a police memoir, “The Midnight Coffee Club: A Memoir of Grit, Glimmers, and the Pull of Police Life.” Readers might find it surprising that one of the book’s early chapters centers on you in middle school. Tel...

07/12/2023

The Midnight Coffee Club — the police life memoir about life choices and legacy — available on Amazon.

05/12/2023

Who‘s left to trust when the cops get arrested? Read the essay, “An Arrest of a Cop” by Jason James Barry on Great Pacific Review, a Prattlon Digital Magazine.

https://www.greatpacificreview.com/post/an-arrest-of-a-cop

Twice now, and more so, I’ve been made privy to old friends or past co-workers who’ve been under arrest. The most recent was a “now former” police officer I worked with, charged with pilfering tens-of-thousands from the police association he served as president of. Nearly $185,000, over year...

12/11/2023

Emulation and shaping a life after your father. If you thought “The Midnight Coffee Club” was just about police, you’re only half right. Read the memoir by GPR contributor Jason James Barry that wrangles with identity and self-worth. Available on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Coffee-Club-Memoir-Glimmers/dp/B0C63J2XM8/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1U2EMSMYJL7WM&keywords=the+midnight+coffee+club+jason+james+barry&qid=1699824094&sprefix=Midnight+coffee+club%2Caps%2C214&sr=8-1

30/10/2023

Looking for big-picture context about the mass shooting in Maine? Read “Our Affinity For Arguing About Gun Violence — While Avoiding Why” by Jason James Barry on Great Pacific Review.

The gun violence problem people have been talking about — when did ours begin? I’ve asked this out loud and to myself in the wake of the recent mass-shooting in Maine. There have been others that preceded it. This is just the most recent. If I had to look back (in both my journalistic and law en...

26/09/2023

Check out what’s new on Buzzard Digital, the Pop Culture and Entertainment News site for Great Pacific Review!

In case you didn’t notice, for the better part of 140-some-odd days there’s been a writer’s strike. I actually think it's over. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has been seeking more favorable terms for movie and TV show writers, and the plight somehow also stand to protect background actors...

11/09/2023

In reflection of September 11: “The Where Were You Day“ by Jason James Barry on Great Pacific Review.

I had been in mid-spoonful of chewing my Cheerios, sitting on the carpet in front of the TV in the living room. My brother and my other roommate were already off on their mornings, at their jobs or sitting in traffic getting there. My wife, who I wouldn’t go on to meet for another two years, she w...

08/09/2023

Ever have a really good coffee? How about a really bad one? Read the Peet’s Coffee review, “A Tale of Two Coffee Locations” on Great Pacific Review!

Is a bad cup of coffee considered an existential crisis or a petty first-world problem? I think the former. Or is it the latter? Whichever, to me, it’s a problem. A big one. Since having taken the mantle to review coffee stops amid my travels, I’ve sipped the good and spat the bad. Some brews ar...

22/08/2023

San Diego’s own World Champion kickboxer Tiffany “Time Bomb“ van Soest fighting her LAST fight next month!

Tiffany 'Time Bomb' van Soest

je aub op ons kanaal en volg Champs Talk op social media:https://www.ChampsTalk.nlhttps://www.ChampsTalk.nl/Spo...

21/08/2023

https://www.greatpacificreview.com/post/calinflience-review-buonasera-new-york-pizzeria

The rumors had circulated that fabled “great pizza” existed somewhere along the lagoons by Torrey Pines State Beach. So went a Sunday drive, just after noon, at the tail end of Thanksgiving break to the sole pizzeria that met those descriptors. Sandwiched between Roberto’s Taco Shop and Bird R...

21/06/2023

Investigation and Cold Case Obsession. The Latest by Jason James Barry on Prattlon.

https://www.prattlon.com/post/glimmers-of-an-old-cold-case

When I started looking into some of my father’s old police cases, I didn’t expect to get pulled in so fully, the same way I think he did. He died carrying a picture in his wallet of a teenage girl named Janette Reynolds. Hers started as a missing persons case assigned to him when he was a Connec...

20/06/2023

Humanization of police… A great synopsis on a police life memoir from Solana Beach Sun!

Following in the footsteps of his father, Jason James Barry became a police officer in his home state of Connecticut.

16/06/2023

Police are cool again 😎

14/06/2023

For my loyal (and tech-savvy) book fans - the Kindle Edition of my police life memoir is out! -- Jason

https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Coffee-Club-Memoir-Glimmers-ebook/dp/B0C7TGMH38/ref=sr_1_1?crid=20M5SEVXD1Y7B&keywords=the%20midnight%20coffee%20club&qid=1686707123&sprefix=%2Caps%2C191&sr=8-1&fbclid=IwAR3fQ9VXUWU8fAvskE1BXKRY87-8CEQZ4aZ0L5J6Gd5MwmaSfNuG3C7PBCQ

The Midnight Coffee Club: A Memoir of Grit, Glimmers, and The Pull of Police Life

06/06/2023

Little known facts about East Lyme, CT "The Midnight Coffee Club" book, and police:

1. A family tragedy in 1961 detailed in Chapter 13, entitled "Chesterfield Road," took place in a now-exclusive north end neighborhood in Flanders.

2. The land was once my family's farm... just off Chesterfield Road. I grew up next door.

3. If you've wondered why some people become cops: That tragedy made headlines then, and for years after, my family was ashamed. Then my father, Donald Barry, became a Connecticut State Trooper to redeem our name.

03/06/2023

New insight on a Connecticut cold case:

https://www.prattlon.com/post/a-cold-case-revisited-the-disappearance-of-janette-reynolds

In the summer of 1978, a teenage girl from Eastern Connecticut disappeared while hitchhiking home toward Jewett City. The disappearance…