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Do You Want To Know What Makes
“Do you want to know what makes me laugh?” Jeanne Peck asked, wielding a sheet of paper. “This makes me laugh” and she proceeded to ...
Health care delivery in the ea
Any child in the New York City neighborhood in which I grew up would have had to be very sick indeed to have been taken to a Doctor’s offi...
Jenny, The Mister & the Christ
Ca 1925 – or so This is one of those well-worn, beloved family stories (all families have them) that is, with great relish, oft-repeated ...
Lament for a Rose-Colored Tren
The year: 1945 or so. The place: The Bronx, New York. A strange phenomenon was taking place. Throngs of otherwise quiet, well-behaved, obe...
A Little Girl Celebrates Chris
It was 7 AM Christmas morning. A light snow had fallen during the candlelight service the evening before — just enough to look like Christ...
Movie “Give-Away” Nights
During the Depression Years of the 1930’s ordinary working-class folks (no matter the color of the collar) had very little left in the bud...
Patsy, Tony and Marilyn’s Li
Among Charlie’s many and varied friends were Patsy and Tony, who owned a Bar and Grille down in Golden’s Bridge. At one point, for some ...
The Legend of Mitzi & the Copp
Ca. 1936 This is a story about a Boston Terrier named Mitzi. Actually, it had been intended that her name be “Misty” due to her grey br...
Please Don’t Mess With My Bi
…. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. I Corinthians, 13:13 As far back as memory...
Radical Acceptance
A Different Kind of Poem There is a tree. Most of the leaves have fallen. Autumn is almost spent. Tangled in the nearly-bare branches are...
School’s Out
Circa 1930s If you’re looking to read tales of exciting adventures, travels to exotic lands, expeditions to unexplored locations… you...
Serendipity
Recently I was asked how the musicians’ strike of the 1940s impacted the way I listened to music the rest of my life. My immediate reactio...