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We can’t play pickup baseball on the Terps’ field?
Fresh to the University of Maryland campus, the three transfer students ran around the baseball field like the little boys we were just a few short years prior. We tested our throwing arms from...
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I miss James Gandolfini, ‘Enough Said’
The characters played by James Gandolfini and Julia Louis-Dreyfus sure did look happy and comfortable together after those uncomfortable first date moments in “Enough Said.” I wanted to see the...
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A hairy relationship between the siblings, or, keep your chin up
For eight years, I was an only child. Darn that Frank and Dolores. Can’t we get somebody else in this family to take some of the attention off me? When Francine came along, I was the happiest big...
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I dreamed of Genies
I see the signs and the stores when my dear wife Karen and I drive through our state of New York into Pennsylvania. Fireworks for sale. I have regularly looked over to one particular emporium of boom...
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A big gap on my first day of college
Eight years. Ten years. When I’m 56, who cares, you know? Despite their protestations, my sisters Frannie and Dory are indeed catching up to me, in my mind’s eye, at least. But, oh, how the sibling age...
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Dinner with Daryl at Captain John’s
A week ago, my dear wife Karen and I took that short drive east for another exciting chapter of our Dinner with Daryl series. Not that barbecue in the backyard I’ve been rooting for since my wonderful...
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Throwback Thursday: Pop Pop, Nana and me
When my mind brings up memories of my Pop Pop and Nana, grandparents on my mother’s side, George is always smiling. The old guy — yes, no matter the age I am in these flashbacks that still warm me...
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Throwback: Baseball please, with window cut pie for dinner and cold drafts...
I spotted Bob the Mailman at the ballpark last weekend, and Tommy Hrim’s favorite expression this time of year screamed inside my head. “Baseball, please,” I said to the graying gent who had plopped...
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Throwback: Fake cover for imaginary album by faux band. Really!
Back in the late 1970s, our two bedroom, one-bath apartment in Adelphi, Md., was always rocking. Yes, Twenty, Aggo and I were eyebrows deep into two years of hard university time within those walls in...
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A Facebook tag takes me back to a newspaper office in 1979
I recognized the face immediately when it popped up on my Facebook page, a mom smiling between her two daughters. We’ve been friends on social media for … well, since the advent of people telling...
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Simon and Garfunkel looked a bit tense back as old friends in Central Park
Where was I on Sept. 19, 1981, when all those people crammed into Central Park to see Simon & Garfunkel get back together on stage? Big night, indeed, I could tell as my dear wife Karen and I...
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Happy 35th anniversary, KP
I’ve written about my friend KP often here. In tales about our golfing rounds. In stories about my newspaper past. When I think about my life now and then, KP plays an important part in it. Of course...
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My first time at Woodstock
My former colleague at the big daily Bill LaRue dug up a golden oldie from his files the other day and sent me into flurry of memories. That’s me, arms covered with muck, working hard on the...
View ArticleOne heck of a newspaper staff
My Facebook friend Pat Myers put a photo on my page last week that begged for a Throwback Thursday slot here. We were the student staff of the University of Maryland daily, The Diamondack. It was one...
View ArticleThere’s a reason I like elephants
My dear wife Karen and I appreciated a Netflix movie by the title of Holiday in the Wild. OK, that’s a bit of a tease to my upcoming Monday Movie Review. But while watching, it also brought me back a...
View ArticleHello, it’s me, mid-80s style
Sometimes your photo roll travels back all by itself and up pops an image that screams … What was I thinking? That was almost 40 years ago! How much can I remember about that picture? Time for a...
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