Archives in Category: Nostalgia

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Lazy Afternoon

Posted on April 8, 2017

In years past, Earl and I would often spend Saturday afternoon sharing some trivial activity.  Like going to the grocery store together.  Or getting a hot dog. Or visiting an antique shop.

I don’t know what happened to that

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Baseball in October

Posted on October 8, 2016

Last night, I watched the first game of many in the race for this year’s World Series. Not only are the Chicago Cubs in contention, but the team has a fighting chance to win its first World Series in over

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9/11

Posted on September 11, 2016

I’m doing my best to avoid television reruns of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center buildings.  I don’t want to watch the films another time as they’re already seared in my consciousness.  I understand that this is a

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Staying Connected

Posted on September 7, 2016

Today I took the local commuter train to Chicago to have lunch with the professor who was my advisor when I was working on my Master’s thesis.  I graduated from Lake Forest College’s M/LS program almost twenty years ago, so

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Staring at Me

Posted on July 6, 2016

There is a shelf in my office above the external monitors where I keep mementos, and I was studying them today.  The small statue of Brahms was a gift from my piano teacher when I finally mastered the dotted quarter

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Marathon Musings

Posted on June 17, 2016

I’ve never been to Duluth, MN, and might never have come now except for my son Kevin’s plans to participate in Grandma’s Marathon tomorrow. It’s the fortieth anniversary running of this event; and it’s being acknowledged in a big way.

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Memory Riff

Posted on June 4, 2016

Waylon and Johnny are dead. Kris is still into music but has a form of dementia as he approaches eighty. And Willie . . . is just Willie. At eighty-three, he’s still on the road making music with his friends.

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Libby

Posted on March 22, 2016

I got the call last night; Libby had died. She was in her mid-nineties, and I hadn’t seen her in almost twenty years, so our relationship was mostly birthday cards and flowers at Christmas. Still I appreciated the call.

I

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The Concert in Grant Park

Posted on December 21, 2015

Recently I caught a rerun on PBS of Simon and Garfunkle’s Concert in Central Park, which was originally performed in September, 1981.  It was a free concert that the folk duo gave before five hundred thousand people to help raise

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Honoring the Day

Posted on December 7, 2015

Many Americans remember that on this day in 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States subsequently joined World War II. I say ‘many’ because as the decades tumble after each other, there are fewer and fewer people

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