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The Long Way Home

October 5, 2020 – 1:30 pm

Eastern Airlines served the Boston-NYC-Washington circuit throughout the 1960s as the premier shuttle airline between those three cities. A billboard at the entrance to Logan Airport promoted a $11 commute flight to La Guardia. My paper route paid that amount every week and I dreamed about purchasing a ticket to the Big Apple, however when […]

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WINTER’S TOLL – Montauk

April 1, 2020 – 1:38 am

WINTER’S TOLL The rails run straight to Montauk. The pine forest is wizened by the salt off the ocean Deer dash across the tracks. Day and night. The train runs once an hour. 3600 seconds apart. Still some deer don’t make it. Crows pick clean the bodies and the bones gleam white in the afternoon […]

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A Reprobate’s Parental Guidance

April 20, 2019 – 5:34 am

In 1969 I smoked reefer for the first time in my VW Bug coming from Nantasket Beach. Tommie Jordan and John Gilmore were my passengers. The weed belonged to Tommie, a hockey player from North Quincy. His hair was long, at least for a hockey player, but then so was that of Derek Sanderson and […]

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A Reprobatal Parental Guidance

April 22, 2012 – 2:54 pm

My first joint was smoked in my VW Bug coming from Nantasket Beach. Tommie Jordan and John Gilmore were my passengers. The reefer belonged to Tommie, who was a hockey player from North Quincy High. His hair was long for 1969. At least for a hockey player, but then Derek Sanderson wore his long and […]

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Demo Derby Redux

September 7, 2009 – 5:26 pm

Richie Boy gave me the keys to his LandRover this weekend. “It’s an $80,000 car. Don’t smash it up.” ‘Smash it up?’ I haven’t had a car accident in over three decades. My last motorcycle accident two years ago almost tore off my forearm. Those don’t count with cars, although this spring driving along the […]

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