Another of the stories from the book that never got finished, one of the saddest when you realize the subject had onlu a few more years to live after the 2008 interview for this story. If there is a blessing, it’s that she could be reunited with her beloved Charlie. And by the way, so …
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My late parents were true world travelers. They eventually visited every continent except Antarctica, something my son Virgile matched by his mid thirties. Virgile has done some truly amazing things when it comes to travel. In 2005, he spent half of his junior year of college in St. Petersburg, Russia. There was a 10-day break …
With all the controversy surrounding the move of the Philadelphia/Kansas City/Oakland Athletics moving to Las Vegas, there’s one question worth asking. Why? Why is it that cities are still willing to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to lure professional sports teams away from other cities? According to the 2022 census, four of the 12 …
Q. Why does a dog lick its testicles?A. Because it can. Q. What are five rich men on the bottom of the ocean?A. A good start. Ordinarily I would have at least some sympathy for people in life-threatening situations. Anyone who travels 12,500 feet under the sea for the purpose of exploration and knowledge deserves …
Another of my 2009 stories from the Woodson Class of 1967: Barbara Lanzer was one of the truly interesting women in our class, and it was my loss that I never knew her. Her life has been a good story. Here it is: WELCOME BACK If there was one thing Barbara Lanzer never expected, it …
Jon Rumble was not the only member of our graduating class to be killed in Vietnam. Jon was better known because of his activities with the Drama Club. Mike Sullivan only went half days in 12th grade, working in the afternoons. But he had friends too, and he had a reputation as a very nice …
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This won’t be a long piece. I have been thinking about it all day and I’ll just make my point and file it. I think Fathers Day is an incorrect name for an important holiday. It doesn’t take much to be a father — just a shot of sperm that finds an egg. In fact, …
I have mentioned before that after my 40th high school reunion in 2007, I started a project looking at the Class of 1967 approaching old age. I actually wrote a dozen or so chapters, but then I hit a point in my life where there was great turmoil, both career-wise and health-wise. The book never …
I was listening to an interview with a few Trumpanzees outside the Miami courthouse the other day, and I swear I didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry. Either we are growing a crop of the most gullible people ever to live … or these people are just nuts. One of them was babbling …
When I wrote about Woodstock the other day, about how I wished I had gone, a friend of mine commented that he had been there. I reminded him that I knew that. About 15 years ago, I was working on a project that never quite came to fruition, and I was writing individual chapters about …
TONY FROM WOODSON TO WOODSTOCK TO MARSHALL TO SOFIA Read More »
