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...
View ArticleYou 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...
View ArticleTime 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...
View ArticleHaunted 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...
View ArticleFor 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...
View ArticleChasing 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...
View ArticleOy, 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleThings 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleCloset 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...
View ArticleA 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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