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New Project: Word Box, July 26, 2024

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I continue my ongoing quest to reduce clutter in my life. The fact that today is my birthday has re-animated my efforts to empty my file cabinet of nonessential items and otherwise, lighten up. Throughout my life I have been collecting interesting things.  The most manageable of these them are the printed articles: newspaper clippings […]

Birthday Diminishment

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I’m having a milestone birthday today. It’s not like it used to be. Nobody knows what I was like when I was a kid any more. They’re all gone. I won’t have to listen to Dad’s yearly reminiscence that I made him miss breakfast the day I was born; I won’t get a call from […]

When I’m Sixty-Four

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My brother called me up today on the videophone. I was amazed at that technology when I first saw it back in 1964 at the World’s Fair in Flushing, NY.  Fantastic things were to come. I answered the phone and my brother didn’t speak at first. I just saw him at the piano playing an old […]

Mom’s Birthday

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This would have been my mother’s 91st birthday. She died shortly after her 90th, last year. My younger brother Dave and I were there. Dave brought his piano and played for her. We miss you, Mom.

Amoeboid

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I think Mom would have liked this one, although it is a far cry from the painting I gave her just a year ago for her 90th birthday. She would have been 91 today, if she hadn’t died. See today’s other post (Mom’s Birthday) for Dave’s (my younger brother) piano rendition of Happy Birthday. Mom […]

It’s Mike’s Birthday!

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Every year that my parents were well, we would arrange to meet at Mike‘s group home for a birthday party. It was fun and the other residents really enjoyed it, as did we all. The photos below are from his birthday in 1992. Mom and Dad were still around and vigorous. You’ll find my post […]