Category Archives: family

The Long Way Home

October 5, 2020 – 1:30 pm

Eastern Airlines served the Boston-NYC-Washington circuit throughout the 1960s as the premier shuttle airline between those three cities. A billboard at the entrance to Logan Airport promoted a $11 commute flight to La Guardia. My paper route paid that amount every week and I dreamed about purchasing a ticket to the Big Apple, however when […]

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BRING ON THE REVOLUTION by Peter Nolan Smith

June 1, 2020 – 12:31 am

Last week I went out to eat with my nephews and their parents at a Mexican restaurant on Okochobee Boulevard in west Palm Beach. The conversation gravitated to sports; baseball for Trey, golf for Reese, and basketball for their father and me. Their mother was happy to be left in peace. After dinner we stepped […]

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Paragon Park Memories

May 8, 2020 – 10:00 am

Funny how the places you loved disappeared and then come back as memories. Paragon Park was one of them. Gone in the Here-Now, but always there in the Here-Before. To recapture a taste of Paragon Park, please go to the following URL

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A Good Job

January 11, 2020 – 1:44 am

In my youth my father said to me “If you can’t do a job right, then why even start?” His statement sought to instill a desire to accomplish an assigned household chore to the best of my ability. Sweeping out the garage, empty the trash, weed the yard ad infinitum. We lived in the suburbs […]

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WORLD AIDS DAY

December 1, 2019 – 4:42 am

My baby brother Michael Charles Smith. Gone sixteen years. Forever with us. World AIDS Day. It’s for all of us and all of them

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