Monthly Archives: December 2024

BOXING DAY ON THE BOWERY by Peter Nolan Smith

December 26, 2024 – 2:54 am

From 2013 Every Christmas my mother cooked a 20-pound turkey, I mashed seasoned potatoes, and my sisters set the dining room table with yams, creamed onions, turnips, peas, stuffing, and all the fixings for my aunts, uncles, cousins, grandmothers, friends, cousins, sisters, and brothers. Grace was said with bowed heads. Our plates were swept by […]

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BOXING DAY BLIZZARD – East Coast – 2010

December 26, 2024 – 2:18 am

From 2010 December 23 2010 was my last day of work for the holiday season. Richie Boy and I had worked solid three weeks. That day an extra hour was added to the schedule in hopes of last minute shoppers. There were none. Jewelry was x-ed off Santa’s list this year, although Richie Boy held […]

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BOXING DAY Pattaya 2007

December 26, 2024 – 1:58 am

From 2017 Boxing Day in Britain dates back to the Middle Ages. Workers showed up at the manors and estates to receive hand-outs from their English overlords. In those early times the money was placed in a clay pot containing the year’s bonuses and in recent capitalist times the boxclay pot containing the year’s tips […]

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Journal Entry December 26, 1977

December 26, 2024 – 1:48 am

From 2020 Christmas dinner at my parents in Milton has been very pleasant, although my youngest brother Michael, was dying to tell the family that he was gay. I whispered at the dining table, “Don’t do it now. Only Mom doesn’t know you’re gay.” “Dad does?” “He never said so much, but you’re sort of […]

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Montauk Train # 24

December 25, 2024 – 2:48 pm

Montauk Train # 24 Yesterday afternoon I returned to New York from Montauk The 2:45pm train to Atlantic Avenue On time departure Picking up speed along Navy Beach 60 Crossing Hither Hills New York City bound For Christmas Eve___ The only passenger on the head car Sitting on the right side Out the window Nepeague […]

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