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Showing posts with label growing up. Show all posts
Showing posts with label growing up. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

I love the smell of Play-Doh in the morning

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Few smells are as evocative of my childhood as the unmistakable smell of Play-Doh. In the latter stages of the 1950s Play-Doh became availab...
Thursday, August 06, 2026

Yo, Yo-Yos!

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When I was a kid, I loved playing with my yo-yo. Not that I was all that good. Sure, I mastered the basics: walk the dog; around the world; ...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Should've stuck to bubble gum...

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When the story was first reported, it looked as if Ipswich school administrators were way over-reacting by suspending from play six members ...
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Thursday, March 26, 2026

Duck and cover

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I remember plenty of school fire drills. Back in the day, kids were actually killed in school fires - as happened to 92 kiddos (and 3 nuns) ...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

Triple deckers

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I always tell people that I grew up in a triple decker, which is kinda-sorta true. I only lived there until I was six-and-a-half, when we mo...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Word nerd

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My mother was anti-swearing. The strongest language I ever heard her use was "Jesus, Mary, Joseph," which she only deployed on the...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2025

The Hills Are Alive, with the sound of nuns escaping

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Throughout my Catholic childhood, we were regularly encouraged by the nuns and priests to pray for a vocation (where vocation, of course, me...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Betcha can't eat just one

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Seriously, who doesn't like potato chips? There are plenty of food items you can't eat just one of: Oreos, M&Ms, and peanuts, fo...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Short answer: not really

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Well, yesterday, my post was dedicated to pudding. Today, we take on an adjacent foodstuff: Jell-o salad. One of my mother's festive spe...
Thursday, November 06, 2025

One more proof that baseball is the greatest sport...

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I can watch most sporting events with some degree of interest, and in the case of the American Big Four: football, basketball, hockey, and b...
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Thursday, October 09, 2025

Just put your lips together and blow

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One of the many pleasures of my pre-school days was meandering around the neighborhood with a small covey of my fellow three- and four-year ...