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December 20, 2006 12:16 PM EST --     Plunging a 10-foot metal pole into a mass of hot glass heated to 2100 degrees is not what people think of when they look for a perfect birthday gift. But there we were, my wife and I, . . . 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
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 . . . more
August 09, 2009 11:29 AM EDT -- When I was a young boy in the 1930s our family always rode in a used car. My father worked in a steel factory at a time the United Steelworkers of America had little bargaining power. As a result, . . . more
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. . . . 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 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 . . . 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
May 02, 2006 08:36 AM EDT --     Our 30-year-old miracle daughter arrived home last night carrying a bouquet of roses for her mother. I call her our miracle daughter because lived following an accident in the Colorado . . . 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 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
April 26, 2007 10:53 AM EDT -- Dog’s grow older sooner than we humans.  Watching them become cripled with arthritis and their eyesight begin to dim reminds us of our own inevitable deterioration as we age. And so as I watch . . . more
March 20, 2007 06:20 PM EDT -- Jeremiah O’Sullivan was dean of Marquette’s College of Journalism in the 1950s, when I was a student there. All those who studied under him and the faculty members called him simply, “the . . . 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 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 – . . . more
 
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