Tag: reflections
member name: Joseph Ritz
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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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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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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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March 07, 2009 10:50 AM EST --
As graduation time nears it’s time to ponder about college and graduation and our hopes. Well, anyway, it causes me to ponder.
When I went to college it was affordable, a year’s tuition . . .
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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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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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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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July 20, 2009 09:32 AM EDT --
‘”Memory is like a long broken night” — Graham Greene
I don’t find that so, but reading a recent biography of the author, The Life of Grahan Greene – . . .
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