Category Archives: 70s

JOURNAL ENTRY DECEMBER 27, 1978 – EAST VILLAGE

December 27, 2024 – 5:52 pm

. The visit to my family in the Blue Hills had been comforting, but I hadn’t said a single word about Alice’s possible pregnancy. Not to my parents or sisters or brothers. At the dinner table I saw how proud my father was of his wife and family and I asked, if I would feel […]

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Bowery Boxing Day – Dec 5, 2010

December 26, 2024 – 9:50 am

From 2010 Boxing Day is celebrated on the day after Christmas mostly in the UK and host of occupied nations dominated by the British Empire such as Australia, Canada, Ghana, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Kenya, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, and Jamaica. For years I thought ‘Boxing Day’ was traditionally the holiday on which the […]

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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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JOURNAL ENTRY DECEMBER 22, 1978

December 22, 2024 – 12:18 pm

From 2022 After the hurricane swept the island, I set off in a leaking sailboat across the trashed sea and landed on a large island peopled by two warring factions. I and my faceless friends were drafted into a guerrilla troop and were deployed in the forest to ambush an unknown enemy. I was ordered […]

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PTSD Too

December 1, 2024 – 11:58 am

Several years ago I was at Grand Central Terminal with my sister’s younger in-laws. All military back from the Endless War. A twentyish Ranger said with young envy for a lost time that New York must have been crazy back in the 1970s. I replied yes and then flashed on the ghosts. Too many to […]

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