Open Doors
They told us who the targets were…Our best bets to make a sale. The gist of it was, lower middle class areas; where there was no man in the house or he wasn’t home. This is wrong on so many…
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Loss
. I held her hand tightly, because I could. It’s what she wanted. It was sure as hell what I wanted. She was visiting me from out of state and I was showing off the city. We had been wandering…
Summer of 76
First of all, you need to know that I have never been afraid to take off on some adventure, even from a young age. I was riding trains and buses between cities by myself starting at 11, and I often…
Verdi Cries *
“With just three days more I’d have just about learned the entire score to Aida.” This song has always touched me deeply. There are a lot of theories about the meanings and intent behind it, though supposedly in a BBC…
The Motor Route
It was one of my summer hustle jobs. Through all the problems I went through as a young man, especially in college, no one ever had to tell me to hustle for a living. I got the work ethic from…
Three Things From My Childhood
A story about how things matter. Photographs can help you remember things, but objects make you feel things. The connection is not obvious as in a photo. You have to work a little bit to remember the significance and conjure…
On Being Cold In The Woods
It’s a feeling I know very well. It’s not a bad feeling if you know home is not far and your directions are sure. You can put up with the cold because comfort is waiting and you are sure of…
The Marine Theater
The ushers hustled everyone to their seats. They wore the Jones Beach State Park uniform. Blue and white. There were seahorse emblems on their hats and epaulets. Limousines were parked in their special lot while VIP guests ate 5 star…
The Flag
“Kessler does not raise flags. Kessler burns flags!!!!!” And so that was that. There would be no flag-raising today, and the flag pole stood unadorned all day. No one batted an eyelash. Such was life at Camp Da-Ro, a summer…
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