Tag: memoir

member name: Joseph Ritz
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August 06, 2006 12:00 AM EDT -- <font size="3"><span style="">I look back on my high school years in the 1940s with the sentient of an ex-con recalling hard time in a maximum security prison. We didn't . . . more
January 04, 2008 07:39 PM EST -- Those who think of the 1950s as dull and nearly sexless never lived through that tumultuous era. Those of us who were young then,  remember a  decade crammed with excitement, change, conflict . . . more
August 25, 2006 11:49 AM EDT -- Undertakers were the politest people I knew when I was small. I remember clearly them setting up folding chairs in the cramped living rooms of the homes of my foster father's dead relatives and I remember . . . more
January 25, 2007 06:27 PM EST -- The second great war to end all wars ended in August, 1945. In 1948,the U.S. was preparing young men to fight the next war. I went into the service as an immature youth of 18 lacking confidence and . . . more
January 12, 2008 05:04 PM EST -- I was a private first class in  June of 1950 and planning to attend Seattle University, which was 60 miles from Fort Lewis. where the 2nd Division was based.  The 4th Regimental Combat Team, . . . more
December 20, 2008 11:52 AM EST -- The pastor during most of my school days was an authoritative Benedictine monk of Irish descent, Father Gregory, who patrolled the parish on Sundays looking for male parishioners who were dishonoring . . . more
February 12, 2007 08:10 AM EST -- Army ski training is nothing like taking ski lessons as a civilian. For one thing, the army wasn’t as concerned about how we got down a slope as it was in our getting up it. It figured we could mostly . . . more
January 16, 2007 09:09 PM EST -- I was born a bastard and I’ve remained one all my life. I became a journalist.” So begins Joseph P. Ritz’s story of his search for his background in his book I NEVER LOOKED FOR MY MOTHER . . . more
December 15, 2006 11:39 AM EST -- Most children are stuck with the parents they have. Many children from time to time hope and believe they are adopted.  But for them it is just wishful . . . more
January 24, 2008 09:20 PM EST -- I had prepared a couple of lines of patter I was going to say at my 50th high school reunion. Standing in front of my fellow graduates and their wives and husbands, microphone in hand, I planned to . . . more
September 09, 2006 10:32 AM EDT -- "I was born a bastard and I've been one all my life. I became a journalist." So begins Joseph P. Ritz's story of his search for his background and his career as a journalist and playwright. . . . more
February 17, 2007 03:42 PM EST -- 2004 was the year my heart was stopped and I talked to God. My heart was stopped because I had to have my heart split open and a valve deep inside replaced. I didn't know if I would live. I was anesthetized. . . . more
February 22, 2007 12:33 PM EST -- For most of the years when I was growing up we had no telephone.  One reason for this was that for many years we couldn’t afford one.  Another reason was that my  mother had a poor . . . more
March 20, 2007 05:57 PM EDT -- Jeremiah O’Sullivan was dean of Marquette’s College of Journalism in the 1950s when I was a stuent there. All those who studied under him and the faculty members called him simply, “the . . . more
February 21, 2006 10:44 AM EST -- Sour Notesritzham@yahoo.com <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]-->        I have no idea why my foster mother thought I should play the violin. I . . . more
May 19, 2007 07:44 PM EDT -- I was born a bastard and I’ve remained one all my life. I became a journalist.” So begins  I NEVER LOOKED FOR MY MOTHER AND OTHER REGRETS OF A JOURNALIST. The book is a journey which . . . more
March 30, 2006 09:03 AM EST -- I was born a bastard and I have remained one throughout my life. I became a journalist. A bastard in the vulgar sense of being unpopular or disagreeable is not a serious handicap in that sometimes unpleasant . . . more
December 24, 2006 11:24 AM EST -- THE details of my adoption are sketchy and come from a very unreliable source — my foster mother.   She herself was unable to have children.  . . . more
February 03, 2007 10:51 AM EST -- The second great war to end all wars ended in August, 1945. In 1948,the U.S. was preparing young men to fight the next war. I went into the service as an immature youth of 18 lacking confidence and marketable . . . more
July 13, 2006 10:24 AM EDT -- I have no idea why my foster mother thought I should play the violin. I had shown no musical talent and we had little money.  Nevertheless, she convinced her husband  to buy me an old instrument . . . more
 
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