The weather. There, I said it. Everyone talks about it, but nobody does anything about it. I get it. What can we do? And no, this is not another column about global warming, greenhouse gases, climate change, or polar vortex storms. Although let’s be logical, many people consider global warming a serious or very serious issue. Possible […]
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I read an article in Time Magazine. It talked about a Broadway show called “Sea Wall/A Life.” The writing in these separate monologues — played together on a double bill at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre — with solo performances by Tom Sturridge (“Sea Wall”) and Jake Gyllenhaal (“A Life”)had a common theme, death. It said, “Meet Alex, a photographer on
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I did some checking, not much else to do during a pandemic. According to the US Department of Transportation, there are about 5,800 train-car crashes each year in the United States, most of which occur at railroad crossings. These accidents will cause 600 deaths and injure about 2,300. I dug a bit deeper. A 150-car freight train traveling 50 miles per hour will take
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“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
When I was growing up, we walked to school. Big kids. Little kids. We ate breakfast (cereal or Pop Tarts), picked up our books (nobody had a backpack), and were handed our lunches (as we got older brown bags took the place of our batman lunch boxes) or a dollar to buy lunch. On a
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Love is a beautiful thing except when it isn’t. Most people, when they realize a relationship isn’t working, go through a period of mourning and move on. Then there are the torch carriers—people who pine long past the point of good sense. People who can’t let go, even though they walked away. I know about them. I’ve
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I love technology. I really do. I mean who doesn’t? When I was a kid, I was excited when I received a tape recorder for my tenth birthday. I had a 13-inch Sony Trinitron, complete with rabbit ears and six channels, that is unless you include channel 13, but I wasn’t much for Sesame Street
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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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In 1978 I was a junior in high school. My brother was 23, had moved back home from college in Washington D.C., and had recently entered the New York City workforce. My sister was a junior in college and had transferred to CW Post from the University of Hartford where she had two years earlier
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I was watching the Emmy-award winning series Inside the Actors Studio, last night hosted and executive produced by James Lipton. With no baseball, I have to find something to occupy my time for three hours before going to bed. ESPN, at least for one night was traded in for Bravo. I didn’t even know we had
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