Category Archives: Family

Harry & Ida – Chapter 1.ii

Posted on July 6, 2024 by Al

[First draft!] The next morning after breakfast,  Grace took Ida and Gretchen upstairs. After making sure their faces and hands were washed, she told them to put on their church dresses and come out into the hall. “Girls, Weeda wants to … Continue reading →

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Harry & Ida, Chapter 1.i

Posted on July 3, 2024 by Al

[FIRST DRAFT – corrections and further edits probable] Ida swung gently in the double swing suspended at the bend of the porch. The sweet scent of lavender soap her mother Grace had washed with that morning drifted with in from … Continue reading →

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Take Me Out To The Ball Game

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Al

The crowd erupted, a full-throated cheer echoing off the steel columns supporting the upper deck above us. I turned to my father, asking, “Why’s everybody excited?” He pointed down at the field. “Kluszewski’s coming out,” he said. Seven years old, … Continue reading →

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4119

Posted on January 9, 2023 by Al

“Can you look at this house for me?” My sister usually ramble when she calls, but this time, she’s all business. “It’s a block up from the harbor, I think it would be just perfect.” “Are you moving? What this … Continue reading →

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Give Me A Head With Hair – III

Posted on March 7, 2022 by Al

            I graduated for the fourth, and last, time, in 1978, from residency, and prepared to enter the Real World. We moved from LA to Utah. After a winter skiing every day in the local Wasatch mountains, I undertook a search … Continue reading →

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Give Me A Head With Hair — I

Posted on March 2, 2022 by Al

March  18, 2020…For a week, it had been one “WTF?!?” moment after another. Sports leagues shut down. Colorado abruptly closed its ski areas. The French stopped eating in restaurants, even on the sidewalk. Schools closed, universities sent students home. Microsoft and … Continue reading →

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Wood Shed

Posted on February 27, 2021 by Al

“Look!” I pointed out our study window, overlooking one of the five acres on which we live. Cheryl, still asleep, or nearly so, could only mumble, “Mumpf?” “A tree. A big one. It must have fallen recently. I didn’t hear … Continue reading →

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If Opportunity Knocks, You’d Better Be Home

Posted on January 16, 2021 by Al

Whatever the opposite of a black cloud is, that’s what has followed me around all my life. While luck may be the intersection of opportunity and preparation, I have had more than my share of the former. It starts, of … Continue reading →

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Love In The Time Of Coronavirus

Posted on March 16, 2020 by Al

Four days now since I’ve had any real contact outside my home, except for a brief visit with another couple in their equally large abode. How have I taken advantage of the new state of affairs thrust on the world … Continue reading →

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Boston 2005

Posted on January 16, 2020 by Al

Another orphaned post… April 17 2005 Boston Marathon Here I am, in Hopkinton, MA, on the third Monday in April, waiting in a pen just around the corner from the start line. I’m in the ninth such pen, the one … Continue reading →

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