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Being a baseball fan, and living and dying with the New York Metropolitans (Mets)

  When I was a little lad, my first memory of professional baseball was of the New York Yankees.  They were the only professional baseball team in NYC because shortly before my long term memory became conscious to me, the

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Posted in Baseball, hope, love, Questions, Sports

Blocks and Cramps and mindless thoughts, or a lesson in the parts of speech.

Topic: Blocks and Cramps and mindless thoughts, or a lesson in the parts of speech. As one can imagine, mindless thoughts do wondrous tricks to the human psyche. In some ways I am prone to flights of fancy in which

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Posted in Answers, Humor, Life, Questions, Self-reflection, Teaching

Role Models and Super Heroes

Who is your role model? – And – What super hero do you identify with? These two questions have been asked of me in job interviews. My short answer is that I don’t have a role model and I do

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Posted in Answers, Friendship, Life, parenthood, Self-reflection, Spiritalism, Sports, Teaching

Glasses, boxes, idioms and other nonsensical thoughts…

Glasses, boxes, idioms and other nonsensical thoughts… I have been told that I have a positive attitude and I see that my glass is half full. This got me to thinking about this idiom and I wondered about that perception.

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Posted in Answers, existentialism, Humor, Life, Questions

Praying – what is it?

What is this thing called praying? Praying or McDonald’s take out. I used to think that praying was like driving up to McDonald’s and ordering a fast food item. You talk into this box and some voice of an unknown

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Posted in Answers, existentialism, hope, Life, Prayer, Questions, Spiritalism

Something better to do?

Having or needing something better to do; or this thing I call being a Facebookian! What am I doing here? How does being on Facebook benefit this existence? One thing for sure, it is wonderful to connect with friends and

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Posted in Answers, Behavior, existentialism, Friendship, Humor, Life, Questions

Am I over the rainbow?

I often wonder about the song “Over the Rainbow”.  I catch myself singing and humming this tune from time to time along with a collection of other songs that are ingrained in my sub-conscious. For some time now (several years)

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Posted in Answers, existentialism, hope, Life

Find what you are looking for at the check out counter….

Finding what you are looking for… It seems that every time I go into a retail store and I am checking out to purchase the items I selected, the cashier asks me, “Did you find everything that you were looking

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