Category Archives: youth

NINES – 2012

June 19, 2025 – 9:59 am

Easter was a special holiday for our family. My mother was a devout Catholic. My father had converted from agnosticism to marry his Irish bride. The Bowdoin College grad was a good dresser and they attired their six children, as if we were the jewels of empire. Every Easter we wore new clothes from tie […]

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Time to Go Home

June 12, 2025 – 2:39 am

Last night after the Celtics – Lakers game LA Larry, ‘SSippi’ Homer, Big Ears Rosa, and several other drinkers at Franks kept the night burning by catching ‘last call’ at a nearby karaoke bar. Homer didn’t get home until 6am. He looked like a deshucked zombie at the bar tonight. Too much fun and Homer […]

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May 29 1966 Velvet Underground/Mothers Filmore West

May 29, 2025 – 2:50 am

May 29 1966 was my 14th birthday. A few days later I graduated from the 8th Grade of a Catholic grammar school south of Boston. I was no hippie. I wouldn’t hear the Velvet Underground until 1968. ROCK AND ROLL on the radio. I never saw the group play. To hear ROCK AND ROLL, please […]

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Happy Mother’s Day From Maine

May 11, 2025 – 1:14 am

Falmouth Foresides, Maine 1957 My mother in bliss. A summer afternoon with her kids and my father. We were a happy family. Then now and forever. I’m on the far right. 8 years from my first beer. Happy Mother’s Day. We all had one. A mother. Not a beer.

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Beneath General Sherman’s Horse

March 1, 2025 – 10:00 am

Anger. At Anger Management the councilors have claimed that we possess three-second trigger defenses before we pull the trigger. I have always begged to differ. My anger trigger is ‘now’. This afternoon I was on a pleasant walk through lower Central Park from my hospital. Exiting from the zoo I strolled to 60th Street listening […]

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