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It is high...It is far...He is gone....

I have been a NY Yankees fan since I can remember. I remember Mickey’s best years, I was so enthralled by the ’61 season and forever became a Roger Maris fan (I wore his number 9 during my little league career). I can still hear Mel Allen and Phil Rizzuto on my 6 transistor radio that was under my pillow so I could listen to the west coast night games. While there were other broadcasters who were…

Lawyers, Guns, (God) and Money

With apologies to Mr. Zevon, the current state of what I grew up thinking was a nation continually evolving toward good, seems to have taken a very blind and hard turn away from that. There are, in my mind, two major forces that have driven the overwhelming majority of societal unrest and evil. Organized Religion and unfettered greed. That led me to the following thoughts Throughout history, two…

Moving farther on

It’s been a while since I’ve stopped by here. Things have been pretty static, not too much to say beyond the incredible stress caused by the petulant boy dictator and his minions so I have taken to spending a lot of time listening to music, reading, living in virtual reality. Many days are taken up doing various boxing routines on Supernatural to loosen up the old bones and muscles and they…

Because I Knew You...

I arrived at Greenwich High in the very early 80’s. Ann Marie Hannon moved into the roll of Math Dept. Chairperson just when I arrived. My first couple of years, even though I had taught mostly Honors and AP courses in my prior stints, those courses were “owned” and rightly so, by established veterans and I was teaching the basic core courses mostly, Geometry and Algebra 2. In my third year Ann…

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Some days are rocks

It’s no secret that I’ve been struggling more than I ever expected since Abbey THE dog left us. It will be two months soon. Since those last few days where we had to make the call (and yes, as is almost always the case, it was made very clear) but since a million little things seem to have shit the bed. We primarily made the move to SC for two reason (1) was my desire to find milder weather and…

My very own state of the union

At the very least, these are perplexing times. We are witnessing a dismantling of civility, of sensibility, of empathy. Simultaneously, there are a significant number of folks in this nation cheering on all of those changes. I find myself looking to shelter myself from the daily screaming sessions, thank you Roger Ailes, it does seem like “the loudest voice” has currently captured the hearts of…

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No, Nay, Never....

It’s been a dark few weeks, the loss of Abbey THE dog still lingers, though it’s easier to think of her and to look at the pictures and the memories. I still take something of hers with me when I go for a walk. The state of the nation is an ongoing daily series of gut punches. I am walking a very fine line between wanting to avoid it at all costs, but also knowing that is exactly the wrong…

A Little Bit of Everything

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Ghosts

It’s no secret that I am constantly confronted with mortality. From anniversaries of loved one’s passing, to looking at the calendar and simply understanding that 2025 is not something I ever thought of back in 1995, it seemed so very far away that it was crazy. What makes it even harder is watching Abbey THE dog beginning to run her final lap. There are moments where she is excited the way she…

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Another blink of an eye

He would have been 100 today. He has been gone for 31 years (he didn’t even make it to 70, almost but not quite). We had a very interesting 41 years together. We had our ups and downs as most relationships of any kind have over that period of time but the nadirs are, even with the blessings of hindsight, far, far fewer than the zeniths. He was born the son of a NYC police detective, his mom died…

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You shake up your soul and nothing stirs

Things have been rough lately. The lead story, of course, is the emotional upheaval caused by the incomprehensible election. I will never understand how messages of hate and fear so totally obscured the facts. The first “round” gave clear history and evidence of what a second round would likely create. Civility and decorum have been cremated, and what has emerged from the ashes are bluster,…

Sometimes the words hit you immediately, sometimes you search and none make any sense

This is truly one of those tomes where all the above is true. It is one day shy of a week when our world turned truly upside down. It has taken at least this long to even try to find a way to express with words, what the emotions are, and honestly even by the time I get to the end of this I don’t know if I will have even been marginally successful, but likely if you stay around until the end of…

Some days

I want to start this by saying I know how lucky I am. 72+ years up the line. I can still swim (slowly but steadily) a lot of laps in a pool. I average between 50 and 80 most sessions. I will be “off” for the next few months due to our pool closing and the town pool (the only other option) being out of commission until at least Feb 2025. However, there are a lot of things that age brings with it…

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Trying To Reason With Hurricane Season:

Squall’s out on the gulf streamBig storm’s comin’ soonI passed out in my hammockGod I slept ’till way past noonStood up and tried to focusI hoped I wouldn’t have to look farI knew I could use a bloody MarySo I stumbled next door to the bar And now I must confessI could use some restI can’t run at this pace very longYes it’s quite insaneI think it hurts my brainBut it cleans me out then I can go…

Thoughts and Prayers:

Let’s start right here with some words from the online edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica: Race is socially constructed, not biologically natural. The biogenetic notion of race—the idea that the human species is divided into distinct groups on the basis of inherited physical and behavioral differences—was finally refuted by genetic studies in the late 20th century. Social scientists,…

Labor Day

I’ve been watching a lot of the US Open tennis matches the past week or so and there are simply some things that immediately take you back so this will be a look back, pretty far back in fact. When I was just leaving my teen years and had just bought my first car at 18, we would summer in Far Rockaway. We started on Beach 52nd street, moved to Beach 40th and finally ended up on Beach 26th where…

Sometimes reality and entertainment merge

Yesterday, for no particular reason other than it seemed interesting I fired up Netflix and watched the movie The Long Game. It seemed to be a mash up of Hoosiers and Stand and Deliver. It was very enjoyable and had moments of laughter, and some of tears. After enjoying the movie for a couple of hours I did a small dive into it and found that it was based on a true story (I think I missed that at…

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