1960's | 1960's
May.14.2013
Title: Fantastic mixture of action and politics.
As a daughter, when your father allows you a glimpse into his past, telling stories which help you understand the man he has become it’s an honour. So, when Bobby Valentine visits his daughter Lynn she cannot resist asking for just one more tale...
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Dec.02.2012
When I was a girl, I read a lot. Perhaps because I only had brothers until I was seventeen and my first sister was born. The younger ones wanted to tromp their cowboys in the dirt, pursued by their clothespin favorite, Big Head the Bad Guy. The older ones liked to...
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Aug.10.2012
Did you know Matt Damon was Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1966 (or Jan 67)? No, I checked on IMDB. He wasn't even born yet! Must have been someone else.
I'm referring to the famous Boomer Cover of Time Magazine, which I have taped here over my toilet.
Yesterday evening,...
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Oct.24.2011
I decided, today, to listen to some meditative music and accompany it with images from Flickr.
At first I picked "Lotus" but that was boring and too many cars. So then I entered "Beautiful Horse."
Perfect!
There was a time I was addicted to pictures of beautiful horses. When I...
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Aug.12.2011
When the Kennedy’s came to stay.. Most of our childhood was spent in relative peace within the confines of 11 Meadowcroft Lane or Stowe, Vermont once my Dad made a little more money! There were so many of us it seemed to me it was impossible to be alone and I am sure that is why I am always...
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Sep.23.2010
THE PHYSICAL/Part 3/
It's 1962 and Morris Krieger's dire warning is ringing in my ears.
"World War III is coming."
I'm taking my Army physical with several hundred other kids in Selective Service Headquarters off Wall Street in downtown Manhattan. A red faced Sergeant, crewcut...
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Jul.29.2010
MY FIRST PHYSICAL/Part 1/A NOTE FROM A SHRINK
It's 1962 and I'm in a boho Garden of Eden.
I live in a sub basement in Greenwich Village. "The coolest place in the world," my friends from Brooklyn say.
The super lets me tap into his electricity and use his phone. His wife takes...
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May.25.2010
I BURGLE BOOKS ON PARK AVENUE/I MAKE A BIG HAUL IN A FANCY BROWNSTONE/Part Two
Summer of '61. There are no cell phones, computers, emails, Facebooks, Twitters. But everybody knows where the party is.
You don't have to make plans. A fifteen cent subway ride takes you to Washington Square Park...
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Apr.01.2010
I STEAL MY FIRST BOOK/Part 1
It's 1961 and the Godless Communists are on the move. Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space. "Now the Antichrist can rain death down on us from the heavens," evangelist Nelson Bell warns. "America is in the gravest danger in its...
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Mar.05.2010
I GET AN EDGEPART THREE"I BECOME A CHESS HUSTLER."
My new partner in crime chain-smokes Gauloises and scratches his forehead until it bleeds. He's sparse with the bio, doesn't even introduce himself.
But when I ask about his chess ranking is he can't help bragging.
"I'm a Master,...
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