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Do you know how many strikes you need to bowl a perfect game? Chances are if you lived in Nyack before May, 1966 you know the answer to my question. Back then a great many folks in[...]
Recently I saw the re-make of True Grit and I enjoyed it but it set off a bunch of thoughts about Hollywood and the Western. We think of the OldWest only from what we get from Holl[...]
I have always been proud of the fact I helped win WW2 with the aid of my little brown wagon. Back then, we all learned about WW2  from baritone voices on the radio. The radio voice[...]
I was enjoying a cup of coffee in the window of what for decades was Hawvermale’s Hardware store when the fire whistle started blowing.  Like the fire engine chaser that I am[...]
Everyone knows we’re supposed to learn from our mistakes.  Mom & Dad drilled that into most of our heads from the time we can remember.   But what about when those mistakes act[...]
Back in 1915, Sigmund Freud wrote one of his best known papers, Mourning and Melancholia, in which he introduced an idea that has since become common knowledge:  that if a grave lo[...]
“What’s going on in the market?” is a question I get every day. Here’s a brief update. With low interest rates and a selection of lower priced homes (under $450K), the first-time h[...]
So, you don’t have a will … What happens at death is psychologically difficult for many of us to deal with.  There are almost always more pressing issues than planning for wh[...]