“Old friends, old friends,Sat on their parkbench like bookendsA newspaper blown through the grassFalls on the round toesof the high shoes of the old friends Old friends, winter companions, the old menLost in their overcoats, waiting for the sunThe sounds of the city sifting through treesSettles like dust on the shoulders of the old friends […]
The news was bleak. President Donald Trump had just announced he was COVID free a day after the White House doctor said he was no longer at risk of transmitting the coronavirus but did not say explicitly whether Trump had tested negative for it. Trump, who was poised Monday to host his first rally after
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What does it mean when someone calls you old school? Old school means something close to old-fashioned, but it’s a term with more pride behind it. If someone says, “I’m old school,” they’re saying they do it like it used to be done, which they believe was a better way. In mob movies, the old school usually thinks they’re better than the younger
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So, I’m a guy with low self-esteem. Sucks to be me. I’m saying that as a dude who used to hate himself. Stop. I still hate myself. I know. Boo hoo. Nobody cares. But exactly why do I hate myself? And why does it matter? I don’t have an answer. It just does. But I
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When they publish my manuscript, I am changing the name to Justified. Justified in devaluing me. Justified in keeping all my stuff after I kill myself to hurt you. Justified in telling our young adult sons I along with my family were not worth knowing. Justified in announcing the mistake you made in agreeing to
The small room was filling up on this very warm, and humid July South Florida morning. Old friends and family from New York had arrived at Palm Beach International Airport on the same flight without knowing they were heading to the same destination. The backroom saw the family standing by Maddie Gibbs, draped in black
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I don’t feel like I do, but if I walk outside, I matter. If you get up to go to your job or get coffee and the New York Times or workout and come back, you’re alive and you are part of society. We watch days turn into weeks. Weeks turn into months. Months turn
Men are known as the less emotional sex; they are supposed to be bastions of stability; the rock in the middle of a storm; unflappably cool no matter what the circumstance. Of course, it’s not wrong for men to get emotional. It’s unhealthy to keep one’s feelings bottled up and shoved deep down inside. But when
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“She’s too good for you.” Oh, how I’ll hear those words till the day I die. If you have read some of my earlier posts, you’re aware I dated a woman I believed was way out of my league. She was, without a doubt, the most beautiful person I’ve ever known. She was kind, considerate,
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I have been doing some research. It turns out the rekindling of young love after many years apart is the key to long-lasting wedded bliss. A study in the United States found that people who rekindled youthful romances at least five years after they had split up had a 76 percent chance of staying together,
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