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As we approach the last full week of summer, change is already in the air. It’s been quite an eventful summer in which the world lost a beloved Queen ( I wonder what our so-called beloved Founding Fathers would say … Continue reading →

My siblings always referred to our Mother as Mamma. My father did, too, when he didn’t call her Bett. Today Mamma would have been 115 years old. She has been gone nearly forty years, but I can still hear her … Continue reading →

Well, here we are on the last Friday of Summer. Of course, that’s not exactly true, but it will have to do for a nation that can’t tell the difference between truth and lies. Labor Day has always been considered … Continue reading →

Today, my father would have been 115, just a few years older than Bilbo Baggins, but no less a joyful and inspirational man. My father lived and worked for his family. I always considered him a Man Of The Twentieth … Continue reading →

I am listening to Sirius XM as I type this here amid the Dog Days Of August, which gets its notoriety from the astrological world. We are, in fact, in the dog days, not because it’s hot or the summer … Continue reading →

When we were moving to Florida in January 2017, we went on a minimalist purge of our possessions. Of course, it was a temporary phenomenon as we would soon be on a consumer orgy of re-acquiring different versions of what … Continue reading →

(I wrote the following eleven years ago this weekend. Eileen had just finished radiation therapy and spending Friday and Saturday night with Sir Paul was her coming out party as she liked saying.) Late one night, a night that would … Continue reading →

There was a time in America when you could really believe in E Pluribus Unum. Of course, most Americans in the days when I was a kid in The Bronx may not have shared the same experiences in growing up, … Continue reading →

We say that Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer. We had already gotten into the summer spirit when I was a kid. Our baseball gloves were well oiled; our baseball bats were taped and ready for swinging for … Continue reading →

It rarely isn’t summer in Florida. At least, in terms of New York weather, It rarely isn’t summer in Florida. With that in mind, it’s not to issue my Summer Playlist 2022. As indicated in a previous blog entry, this … Continue reading →