“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 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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From my Latino days. Not really, but this photo is one of the more unique ones anyone ever took of me. It was almost exactly half a lifetime ago, taken in December 1985, just after I had turned 36. It was the year of my first really successful diet. Starting at the beginning of May, …
It was 50 years ago this coming April. For some reason, I was writing a great deal of poetry in 1972 and ’73. They were two pretty depressing years in my life. My first real love relationship had ended in late 1970, and until I started dating the woman who would become my first wife …
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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’m sorry it’s come down to this, there’s so much about you that I’m gonna miss …” Things I should have said? Who would believe that two minutes and just a couple of sentences could do so much damage that they ruined the better part of two decades and maybe had even more effect …
Eleven years ago, I learned the secret of happiness. I discovered three things that if done consistently, would result in a perfectly happy life. Imagine my dismay when I discovered I couldn’t do them. Oh, I could do one of the three with no problem and another one most of the time, but it was …
“… eight hundred pounds of angry hillbilly.” “Disturbed Veterans of the Indian Wars.” “No, Bubblegut! No!” It’s tough to brag when your book ranks No. 1,149,768 for sales on Amazon, although that does leave “The System” in the top 12 percent or so of more than nine million listings. We have acquired a rating. Someone gave …
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