Tag: stories
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look homeward, sailor
[Photo is mine.] “O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again.” ~~Thomas Wolfe. Look Homeward, Angel. I’m not a ghost, not yet anyway, but I’ve come back. Back to my hometown of Owego. I have things to do. Getting the new enhanced driver’s license is on the top of my to-do list.…
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Cyclones, Sideshows & Mermaids: A Hot Day on Coney Island
[The Luna Park Face. Source: Google search.] I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. ~~John Lennon My wife was with a man with a mission. We exited the D Train into 87° F heat and enough humidity to drown a fish. It was the…
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A Memory Is Immortality
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. —Anon I stood and stared at the box. I was alone. All the relatives, guests and friends had left after the service. The room was quiet except for the almost imperceptible recorded tones of funeral music. I stood several feet away from the box,…
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Donkey Oatie, The Atlantic Ocean and More: A True Story
[Pam. Photo: Patrick Egan] Every so often I run across someone with a story to tell. Often, the encounter is in a pub in New York City, Yuma, Arizona, Juneau, Alaska or someplace in between. For example: About twenty-five years ago I met a guy who claimed he had parachuted off one of the Twin…
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