2012-07-07 07:54
Hong Kong Files #3Today I decide to meet up with Kevin and take the ferry across Victoria Harbor to Central Hong Kong, the business district spurting with skyscrapers. On the way… Read More
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2011-12-19 05:26
On September 11, 2001, America witnessed a terrifying nightmare. We all felt a sense of helplessness as we watched it firsthand on national television. Preparing for school, I began to watch… Read More
2011-11-14 06:11
As I watched the college students march proudly in procession into the stadium, I nostalgically remembered the excitement of that day in my life years ago at my undergrad college g… Read More
2011-10-27 06:45
Like most people, I find cockroaches disgusting and repulsive, but one cockroach taught me a lesson just at the time I needed it.I'm afraid of bugs...always have been. I remember them knocki… Read More
2011-10-05 06:53
Every now and then, I experience a perfect day...where everything seems just right. I had such a glorious day last fall in the magical city of Lucca, northern Tuscany, Italy. Lucca dates bac… Read More
2011-09-18 19:08
Returning to Florence, Italy, meant seeing Michelangelo's David again. I remembered the impact he had on me at 25 and wondered how he would affect me this time, some 40 years later. I had ke… Read More
2011-08-22 04:43
At 10 I inherited an oversized boy’s bike from my cousin. It was officially my first bike since we couldn’t afford the popular Schwinns of the day.It made me happy to… Read More
2011-08-07 04:44
Ninety blog followers and counting on Blogger; 51 followers on Facebook's Networked Blogs:) Every time a new follower appears, I experience a childlike excitement. It's like opening a g… Read More
2011-08-02 19:20
Dad led me there. I know that now. I had gone back to Illinois for a couple days, back to my roots, to the remnants of family still there. On a wet, early Memorial Day morning, Dad requested… Read More
2011-08-02 19:16
Six years, five graduations, nine hundred school days. A relatively short period of time in the lifespan of a human, 900 days.If all the hours I had spent teaching in school were added up in… Read More
2011-08-02 19:12
My Greek Grandfather It was the Great Depression. My immigrant Greek grandfather’s fruit and vegetable stand in Chicago was defunct. He was broke, but a proud man, too proud… Read More
2011-08-02 19:02
Third block biology is a bitch.The class has improved slightly from the first two weeks, when the freshman capered about like wild spider monkeys as they devoured their sole source of nutrie… Read More
2011-08-02 18:56
I’m with my old friend, the sea…just the waves, a few sailboats, occasional shorebirds, scattered shells, polished stones and shifting sand.The sea, my sanctuary, my place… Read More
2011-07-26 21:04
Don't feel like “doing” today…want to relax this morning after teaching my college class for four hours last night. Slept in…looked at the clock…and rolled o… Read More
2011-06-24 06:44
I was having a bad dream and woke up to the sound of a buzz saw to discover the mangled corpse of chopped wood chunks and strewn branches, the remains of the be… Read More
2011-05-13 20:47
Has music ever taken you back to a place and time, a sort of jukebox of memories that the music brings back as if it were just yesterday? Sweet music evokes sweet memories.There seem to be s… Read More
2011-05-01 04:35
Banksy's Bat Papi I don't like modern art.Modern art doesn't have to be explained, it doesn't have to follow any rules or guidelines; modern art can be formless, shapeless, messy, non-sensic… Read More
2011-04-18 21:33
Traditional family holidays meant sharing food with a dash of feud. I have memories of Easter with my original family and Passover with my acquired family.Just as they gathered ann… Read More
2011-04-11 01:00
Birthdays!For most of us, our birthday is an excuse to get together with family and friends, have a good meal, open a few gifts and blow out some candles on a cake.After turning 21, I became… Read More
2011-04-01 19:34
There’s a scene in the movie, The Way We Were, where two men are sharing “best of” memories.Inspired by that scene, I am remembering the many homes of my life and their &ld&hell…Read More
2011-03-21 00:52
"A man can be an artist...in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasy's art is death. He is about to paint his masterpiece. I have nothing else to say." - Rayburn… Read More
2011-03-10 19:34
As a feature reporter for NBC in the Midwest years ago, my assignment was to interview Irishmen drinking and toasting on St. Paddy’s Day in local pubs in central I… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Hong Kong Files #3Today I decide to meet up with Kevin and take the ferry across Victoria Harbor to Central Hong Kong, the business district spurting with skyscrapers. On the way… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Enjoy my son Brian's first impressions of Hong Kong. Here are the first two travel entries:James Clavell. After reading his two Hong Kong novels, Tai-Pan and Noble House… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
This year the 2012 New Year’s celebration didn’t start on December 31st, but on the 30th.Around 2 in the morning I awaken to the clamor of sirens as an army of fire trucks rush u… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
What I thought would be just a summer job in a small town became a summer of touching and sometimes tragic encounters with other women's lives. I was in my 20s, just finished my first year o… Read More
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