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The pocket change of my youth

I grew up in a world of ubiquitous corner stores – forever beckoning me to spend my pocket change on penny candy, and stuff.ThatĢƵ how it was. I’ve never regretted it.On the East End of Uniontown in the 1950s, there must’ve been a dozen family-owned stores.I think I visited all of them, ...

The kingmaker speaks

ItĢƵ as if Donald Trump never left the presidency.He still holds those exuberant campaign rallies with a not-too-carefully concealed eye on an attempted return to the White House.And he still holds court by becoming quite the kingmaker.Something for which he seems to be well-suited.Many ...

Spring and renewal!

Mondays after Easter Sundays were always special to me when I was a kid.That meant if there were any playgrounds or empty fields within scurrying distance, they’d soon be populated by after-school kids indefatigably engaged in all manner of exuberant activities.Allow me to unravel that. ...

If it ain’t broke, fix it anyway

Republicans think they have a sure-fire formula for staying relevant and in office.Run campaign ads, in which they promise to block the teaching of Critical Race Theory and sex education in kindergartens while cleaning up the scourge of widespread voter fraud; then stick the word “woke” in ...

I got memories

Today, I’m 26,833 days old.ThatĢƵ not a milestone.ItĢƵ just another way of saying I’m currently in my 73rd year.ItĢƵ also my way of saying I got lots of memories.I’d better put some of them on paper before I forget I experienced them.HereĢƵ one.Back in 1979, while working as a ...

Of french fries, boycotts and cat bans!

Take that!We sure showed the French that we Americans were nothing to mess with back in 2003.When President George Bush was revving up the U.S. war machine and aiming it directly at Saddam HusseinĢƵ Iraq back then, France demurred.French Minister of Foreign Affairs Dominique de Villepin ...