Tag: random musings
member name: Joseph Ritz
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June 04, 2006 02:54 PM EDT --
"Why do you always lie when you leave a message on the answering machine?"
The voice on the machine belonged to my youngest daughter.
"I've lived there . . .
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January 03, 2007 10:46 AM EST --
As I hear daily reports of more killings in Iraq, either of American troops or civilians, something I’ve often heard and once accepted as wise and true runs in my . . .
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May 07, 2007 10:54 AM EDT --
Today I received an email sent to more than 100 other persons besides myself. It’s not at all unusual today to receive such group messages, even from friends . . .
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January 16, 2009 04:38 PM EST --
“Why do you always lie when you leave a message on the answering machine?”
The voice on the answering machine belonged to my youngest daughter.
“I’ve lived here long enough. I know you’re . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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June 04, 2007 03:08 PM EDT --
I was long grown up before the arrival of today’s Service Economy, a term which is like calling crop harvesting a country vacation.
When I was a child, we had pleasant-voiced women employed to help . . .
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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 . . .
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November 19, 2006 11:56 PM EST --
As the 21st century begins to run on swift feet, things of the last century, cars, computers, cell phones, fashions are increasingly thought of as old.
Old so soon. I am old and remember many Modern Ages. . . .
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January 22, 2009 11:27 AM EST --
I was long grown up before the arrival of today’s Service Economy, a term which is like calling crop harvesting a country vacation.
When I was a child, we had pleasant-voiced women employed . . .
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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 . . .
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January 12, 2007 02:07 PM EST --
At times I read a newspaper or magazine article and I think that the author -- regardless of what the byline says -- is Hyman Kaplan.
Kaplan is author Leo Rosten’s . . .
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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 . . .
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August 23, 2009 07:23 PM EDT --
My oldest granddaughter went to her first prom recently. She seemed to accept it as routine and I suppose it was. Children today begin dancing and dating in the seventh or eighth grade.
It . . .
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February 21, 2006 10:44 AM EST --
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I have no idea why my foster mother thought I should play the violin. I . . .
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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 . . .
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April 10, 2006 09:21 AM EDT --
I turned 70 yesteday. There is nothing extraordinary about turning 70. The vast majority of us do.
It is a measure of progress, not a turning point.
Nevertheless, 70 marks a major . . .
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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 . . .
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May 15, 2006 12:16 PM EDT --
Most restaurants are filled on Mother's Day.
Our family is seldom part of the restaurant crowd. The males often prepare simple meals, but this year our youngest daughter, who is unmarried . . .
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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 . . .
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