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Unpause
Hello everybody, I’m sorry that the essay hiatus was significantly longer than originally anticipated. I’ll be sorting out a consistent publishing pace in the near future, so stay tuned. Best, Kevin
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DON'T LAUGH AT ME
Sometimes essays write themselves. That was the case recently in an essay having to do with an exchange of correspondence between Matthew Pepe and myself involving deflectors which he installed to keep me on course as I negotiate the driveway with the garbage containers. Here is another essay that has written itself. This essay is…
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AIN’T GONNA STUDY WAR NO MORE
A good many of us music lovers are attracted to an art form called the spirituals. In former days, that art form was called Negro spirituals. But somehow, Negro fell into disfavor and it became awkward to call them colored spirituals, black spirituals, or Afro-American spirituals. So the compromise in the music world has now…
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A NICKEL’S WORTH OF ADVICE FROM THE OLD GEEZER
My search for a high-paying job with bonuses and stock options is not a magnificent success story. Last year, I thought I had the New York Mets’ manager’s job sewn up, but they gave it to Willie Randolph largely because he is younger and he is a Brooklyn native. When the New York Knickerbockers demoted…
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MISTAKEN IDENTITY TIMES TWO
During the late 1980s and the earlier part of the 1990s, my wife Judith and I rode on mountain bikes all over northern New Jersey. Our objective was to reach at least 100 miles per week. On most weeks, we met that objective. From time to time, we would stop to rest, usually in preparation…
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NEVER SEND TO KNOW FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
“NEVER SEND TO KNOW FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS; IT TOLLS FOR THEE” John Donne 1572 – 1631 These lines are being dictated on a gloomy Friday afternoon at the end of December, 2006. Ordinarily my outlook on life is less than exuberant during the period between Christmas and New Year’s. Today’s news has sent…
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“…HE KEPT IT FOR HISSELF ” (sic)
It may come as a surprise to all of you to know that your ancient essayist has been a victim of permanent shock since 1940. Permanent shock is sort of a funk which is debilitating in every sense. The shock was caused by Del van Buren Barbee, a philosopher who also washed cars for a…
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Obituary: Ezra Edgar Carr passed away on June 11, 2014
Ezra Edgar Carr passed away at his home on Wednesday, June 11, 2014. Ed was born in Clayton, Mo., in 1922; he was the youngest of eight children, five of whom survived childhood. As a child, he was so shy he was once sent to the Missouri School for the Deaf under the mistaken impression…