Tag: thoughts
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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March 08, 2009 06:20 PM EDT --
A few years ago an elderly priest, a holy, kind and generous man, a man who has devoted his entire life to the service of God, confided to me that at funerals when he is . . .
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August 17, 2009 06:26 PM EDT --
How did you get the nickname “rubberman” when you were in the army? The questioner was one of my grandchildren.
The fact is, I told him; “ I acquired two . . .
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August 28, 2008 04:25 PM EDT --
I remember 2008 as the year my heart was stopped and I talked to God.
Well, it could have been God. I thought it was. I was sure it was. It . . .
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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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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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October 16, 2008 04:45 PM EDT --
I judge candidates by their proposals, that is what they said they will do if elected. Of course no candidate is going to fulfill all his promises or see all his proposals become law, particularly in the . . .
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August 22, 2008 08:48 PM EDT --
Fifty years is a long time to be married to the same person. During that time we who have been married that long have changed significantly , both bodily and intellectually. Neither of us looks . . .
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