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What’s In Your Wallet?

As I approached the drug store checkout I was greeted by the biggest, brightest smile to dazzle these eyes in 30 years. It could have lit up Detroit for a week! The owner of that particular row of...

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You Can Count On It

For a long time, I’ve been saying that the only constant you can count on in life is change. I was wrong. That statement is not quite true, which is somewhat like being only a little pregnant. The...

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Time and Dates

Smells of smoldering charcoal and simmering burgers drifted across the meadow as I settled deeper into the leather of my time machine … top down, stars up and my best girl reclined in the seat to my...

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Haunted House on Harrison Street

Any kid who didn’t have a haunted house in his neighborhood probably also missed out on Three Musketeers bars, chewy wax Coke bottles filled with sugary syrup and those rock-hard colored dots on a...

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For Times Gone By

About the time I was entering my teens, I remember counting the decades on my fingers to figure out if I’d be alive in the year 2000 for the arrival of the new millennium. With the typical hubris that...

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Chasing Purple Monkeys

I have a birthday coming up in a week or so and I’ve been reflecting upon my life, as we all do from time-to-time. It’s just that after a certain age those times occur more frequently … especially as...

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Oy, The Joy of Christmas

The high school I occupied during my pre-adult period was nearly ninety percent Jewish. When many of the more important Hebrew holidays were celebrated, like in September and October, they actually...

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A Cup ‘O Somethingorother

Santa had come and gone. The children were nestled all snug in their beds but the sugar plums that once danced in their heads had been devoured and, by now, the resulting ‘high’ subsided settling...

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Things That Go Thump In Your Heart

She wasn’t my first love but she was the first female to inflict womanly pain upon my soul. My first love was Lucy Williams in kindergarten. We once shared a mat during rest period and a couple of...

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The Lone, Who?

Walt must be rotating briskly somewhere on Boot Hill! Everything I read says the Disney people are wondering why the new “Lone Ranger” movie is bombing. Are you kidding? I don’t usually comment on...

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The Mansion

It was a time when ghosts and goblins were real, penny candy still cost only a penny at the corner drugstore and holidays like Halloween were a season, not just a single day. Any kid who didn’t have a...

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The House On Harrison Street

It was a time when ghosts and goblins were real, penny candy was still just a penny and holidays like Halloween were an entire season, not just a single day.  Any kid who didn’t have a haunted house in...

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A True Jerseyan

I am from New Jersey. I sometimes punctuate my sentences with certain words that outsiders may find offensive. I say, “Yo!” and “Youz”… often. I never had school on Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur. I don’t...

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Closet Santa Claus

Someone I know once told her kids that Santa Claus was dead!  Can you believe that?  Now, this is the same person who didn’t allow costumes or trick or treating on Halloween because it was a...

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A Cup ‘O Somethingorother

Santa had come and gone. The children were nestled all snug in their beds but the sugar plums that once danced in their heads had been devoured and, by now, the resulting ‘high’ subsided settling...

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