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  A heated neighborhood rivalry between the Seabury Pawnees and the Minford Marauders came to a halt when Joey yelled, “Hey Jerry, get your mother off the field, this is an important punchball game!” “Cut it out Joey, Don’t talk … Continue reading →

Why was I running five miles daily on the track at Spring Valley H.S.? What brought me and my sneakers five miles and back on the the asphalt of Route 45? Since I played football for Doc Weidman at James … Continue reading →

No, it didn’t freeze. What’s going on? We had cold weather for the last two weeks and the lake hasn’t I frozen, It was frozen, but to a depth where skating was not permitted. I’ll go to the Crotona Park … Continue reading →

Korea 1952 The sun remained in its permanent position, frozen, but not a single cloud could find it. Battered branches of leafless trees provided little shade on this brutally hot July day in Korea. As if my clammy, unwashed, two-month-old … Continue reading →

Mom served her meals on the surface of our heavy, baked enamel tabletop; a legacy from the previous tenant in our tenement apartment. A pattern of linked royal blue, one-inch diamonds ran along the outer edge of the top and … Continue reading →

It was a multistage theater with performances in each venue as unique as the performers. Each act had a single booking, because it was impossible to replicate. Cecil B. DeMille’s spectaculars could not compete with the dramas played out daily … Continue reading →

  Six foot two Weighs two-thirty-nine Is this an Adonis Or a malodorous swine?   Two-thirty-nine? His ass weighs that much He didn’t pass his physical Does this hog need a crutch?   “He’s 4F “ said his doctor, “He … Continue reading →

A young vet on a float waved in a smiled at me at a recent Memorial Day parade. I smiled and waved back. He carried me back sixty-six years when I was with Company L, 15th Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division … Continue reading →

  My Marty was on the Dean’s List Straight A’s through college Put on your raincoat girls He’s a fountain of knowledge.   All the women adore him His mother loves him the most Try and seduce him girls You’ll … Continue reading →