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  • PEPSI COLA HITS THE SPOT

    The cast of characters in this essay is humungous.  I have no idea what humungous means, but youngsters use that term and it is a lot better than some of their other expressions.  Now on to the characters.  First there were my playmates, Billy Seyfried, Timoteo Marcellan, and Charlie Baldridge.  Beyond those playmates, there is…

  • LEVI AND K-ROD

    The dramatis personae of the following essay will cause historians to rate it as a tour de force or as a complete omnibus essay.  The dramatis personae include Levi Johnston, the Wasilla, Alaska stud who impregnated Sarah Palin’s daughter, and Sarah Palin’s husband who claims Eskimo ancestry in his parentage.  Moving in a southward direction,…

  • THE DOCTRINE OF UP

    This essay, which I hope you will read, has its genesis in a remark made to me by a nursing aide who attends to my needs at night.  This lady, who was born in Ghana, said to me, “Would you like for me to cover you up?”  She could have said, “Would you like for…

  • MORE OF BITS AND PIECES, AND ODDS AND ENDS

    You will recall – or I hope you will recall – that these are bits that come from my notepad and that there is no connection from one subject to another.  So we continue with the spirit of bits and pieces, odds and ends.  The first thought has to do with the cicadas.  It might…

  • LAYAWAY PLANS

    One of my faithful readers has been Thelma DuPont.  Thelma and I worked in the overseas department of the AT&T Company before both of us retired, which seems like in the last century.  Thelma and I grew up nearly 1,000 miles apart yet, judging from her letters to me, we had similar experiences.  For example,…

  • 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,…

  • 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 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…

  • 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…