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No, it wasn’t January 6, 2021. In fact, it wasn’t even in this century. The day that forever changed America, and from which we have never recovered, was November 22, 1963. Back in college, I wrote an essay, Decade of … Continue reading →

In 1962 my brother Michael won a pair of tickets for the first Saturday game that the New York Metropolitans ever played. Make no mistake about it; I was a Yankee fan. Nevertheless, I nagged my father to take me … Continue reading →

Assuming that most of you haven’t had three years of high school Latin and two years of college Latin: e plu·ri·bus u·num/ˌē ˌplo͝orəbəs ˈ(y)o͞onəm/noun out of many, one (the motto of the US). I’ve always had some difficulty understanding what … Continue reading →

Ordinarily, I am a traditionalist when it comes to Christmas and, in particular, the Christmas Season. We always learned that The Epiphany, January 6th, marked the day the Magi gave their gifts of Gold, Frankincense, and Murr to the newborn … Continue reading →

I know, the title is backward but in 2020, what isn’t? Over two thousand years ago, the Roman government proclaimed an edict requiring all the Jews to return to the town of their origin. So, thousands of Jews were urged … Continue reading →

As a kid in Blessed Sacrament, I always felt that the Christmas Season started on Thanksgiving. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade culminated with the arrival of Santa, after all. Then the day after Thanksgiving began train season, as in Lionel … Continue reading →

Last week I was going to write a blog entitled Meltdown In The Sunshine State. I thought the better of it and opted not to dwell on my meltdown. I have tried to be funny and sometimes uplifting during this … Continue reading →

Only seven years ago, we commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination. Although it was hard to believe that fifty years had transpired, considering that I was thirteen on that Friday in November 1963, fifty years felt just about … Continue reading →

If we still remembered History, we would know the poignancy of the word infamy. Those of us who are boomers cannot hear or read the words without thinking of FDR’s speech following the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor on December … Continue reading →

I was still working at St. Vito’s as a seventh and eighth-grade teacher. Eileen had just recently moved to New Rochelle. We had made a tradition of going to see the tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center and had done … Continue reading →