Am I an American … or a Georgian? Are my rights restricted by the state in which I live, or do I have additional rights because of my residence? There are plenty of states with a live-and-let-live attitude, tolerant of people who are different and live outside the mainstream, and others are much more live …
“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 …
It’s strange. You could look at my earlier lists of my 140 or so favorite songs, or the one of the albums that meant the most to me and find little or no mention of this group. But for a couple of years in the late ’60s, they might just have been my favorite band. …
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 …
This is a reprint with some revisions of something I wrote eight years ago for another website. I was watching two baseball movies — one I’d seen before — and it got me thinking. There are at least six or eight different movies I have heard different people calling the best ever and there are …
EVEN WITHOUT THE OLD ONES, SO MANY GREAT BASEBALL MOVIES Read More »
One thing that has always fascinated me about Facebook is the Memories tab, where I’m shown things I posted or saw on this date in history. I joined FB in late 2008, and posted this on January 26, 2009. It was basically 25 random things about myself. Here they are 13 years later, complete with …
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I worked for eight different newspapers in nearly 30 years in journalism. Two of them no longer exist in the form they did when I worked there and two others might as well not exist for all that they have changed. Just as many people remember with fondness the first time they were in love, …
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Paris may or may not be my favorite city in the world, but it’s definitely in the top five. In no particular order, I’d say Paris, London, Venice, San Francisco and New York. I have never lived in any of those cities, but I have visited all of them at least twice. Venice would be …
“These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!” Today is the one-year anniversary of the insurrection Donald Trump …
