“I see dead people …” No, not really, although Haley Joel Osment did attend mass at the same church I did when I lived in Southern California and my daughter actually taught his Sunday school class. But I do seem to be losing people at a faster rate, and I have reached a point in …
Three of the finest men I know are part of my family, one in my generation and two in the next. There are two others who deserve to be in that company, my two nephews in Massachusetts and New York. As best as I can tell, there isn’t one person among the five with a …
One of the toughest adjectives to define is the word “old.” I had my first experience with that more than 25 years ago when I was in a store buying a couple of autographed baseballs. I don’t remember how much they cost, but I purchased signed baseballs from Hall of Famers Frank Robinson and Johnny …
Christmas Day was never the most exciting part of the holiday season. Sure, it’s the day the kids awake at the crack of dawn and open their presents, which is nice if you still have children at home. But even if you do, most of the excitement of the day is finished by the middle …
Christmas Eve Eve? American families seem to have two different ways of celebrating Christmas, one in which Christmas Eve matters most and the other in which the focus is on Christmas morning. Kevin Costner even alluded to it as Crash Davis in the famous “I believe” speech from the 1988 movie “Bull Durham.” ” … …
Everyone has their favorite Christmas movies, even if too many people call something a Christmas movie just because it takes place in late December. “Die Hard” and “Die Hard 2” take place at Christmas, but neither one is about Christmas. Pretty much the same with “Home Alone.” And so many of the more recent ones …
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Short takes from a journey through a disorganized mind: *** I just aged by 10 years overnight. For some reason, people keep posting things on Facebook asking how old you would be if you reversed the two digits in your age. When I asked asked that yesterday, I could say 17. As of today, it’s …
I spent more than half of my childhood living one hour from the biggest college town in America. Columbus, Ohio, has become the largest city in the state and has been the state capitol since early in the 19th century. It’s a metropolitan area of more than 2.1 million people, but more than anything else, …
“Let us go to the banks of the ocean where the walls rise above the Zuider Zee. Long ago, I used to be a young man and dear Margaret remembers that for me.” I think I was in fourth or fifth grade the first time I heard the words “Zuider Zee.” I don’t remember if …
What are the nicest things anyone has ever said to you? I certainly hope you have had at least a few times in your life someone told you how proud they were of you, or how special you are or some variations on that theme. Before I get too far into this, I’m going to …
