Ezra's Essays

Category: 2010

  • INCIVILITY AND A FEW CASES OF CIVILITY

    As a general principle, when someone greets me, I not only return their greeting but may ask about how they are feeling as well.  When someone writes me a letter, I feel commanded to write a letter in return if that is what is required.  But as you can see from the title about incivility,…

  • EVERYONE GOT HONORABLE MENTION

    As a general proposition, by the time my essays have been dictated and reread twice in the proofreading process, I grow sick of them and want them to be completed and mailed.  In the last series of essays, I thought that two or three of them were worthwhile.  One of them had to do with…

  • HE ALWAYS SHOOK MY HAND

    Eric Bogle is a prolific songwriter who started his life in Scotland in a town called Peebles.  At age 25, he took off for Australia and has long since become a citizen there. Bogle composed a song which is really a poem to recognize the existence of a love affair wherein the husband eventually died. …

  • LADIES’ CHATTERINGS

    This essay purports to comment on the conduct of females in restaurants which has come to be disturbing in some cases.  Before I am accused of bias against females, I would cite at least two points in my defense.  Those of you who have read Ezra’s Essays over the years know that I am a…

  • I’M STILL GORGEOUS INSIDE

    If you are a close follower of the essays that come from this desk, you may recall an essay done last spring.  It was called “I’m Gorgeous Inside.”  It had to do with a for-sale sign on the house immediately adjacent to this one which had an appendage to the for-sale sign which said, “I’m…

  • “I’M GORGEOUS INSIDE” -Ellen Konik

    My wife comes from the fabulously wealthy town of Lycippus, Pennsylvania.  I believe that she owns a controlling interest in that town and the surrounding territories.  While I have known Miss Chicka for a number of years, she has never mentioned that she ever served in the American military.  Those of you who have served…

  • I’M STILL MAD AS HELL

    This essay should be read after another essay called “In Memoriam: Abelino Mazariego.”  I don’t usually write essays that are to be consumed one after the other.  I like my essays to have a beginning, a middle, and an end, the thought being that they can all stand on their own feet.  In the instant…

  • IN MEMORIAM ABELINO MAZARIEGO (1953-2010)

    There are two essays in this package having to do with the murder of Abelino Mazariego.  The second essay is called, “I’m still as mad as hell.”  These essays were written in anger and contain a few redundancies and a few errors.  But in the second essay, I have tried to correct some of the…

  • HE/SHE/THEY SAID THAT?! Volume IV

    Volume IV   There are four exclamations that will wrap up the story on He, She, They Said That?!  They come from widely varied sources.  The first one is about a preacher in New Providence, New Jersey and the owner of a filling station/garage across the street.   My recollection is that in 1956, there…

  • HE/SHE/THEY SAID THAT?! Volume III

    Volume III When I set out to write this essay, I thought my recollections could be contained in an essay of maybe six or eight pages.  But as it has turned out, my recollections have now reached a total of three volumes.  I believe that I have spent as much time as I wish to…