Category Archives: family

Obama’s Speech

January 13, 2011 – 8:48 am

Sometimes the best things to do in a moment of chaos is shut up and listen. – James Steele To hear Obama’s Speech please go to the following URL on BBC News http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12179336

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Quote of the Day – Sheik Auda from LAWRENCE OF ARABIA

January 12, 2011 – 1:05 pm

I work selling diamonds. Some big. Some small. People ask me why I’m not rich. it’s not my business, but the real reason is that I take care of my family and I always like quoting Sheik Auda from LAWRENCE OF ARABIA “I carry 23 great wounds, all got in battle. 75 men have I […]

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End of Moneyless Utopia

December 27, 2010 – 1:41 pm

My daughter was born seven years ago on New Year’s Day. My son will be two and a half. My two step-children are still under ten. I love them all and reacted immediately to their mothers’ request for money by tramping through the snowdrifts of Brooklyn to the nearest Duane Reade to send money. “Couldn’t […]

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Honor Guard for My Father

November 14, 2010 – 9:33 am

My father volunteered for the US military right after Pearl Harbor. His color-blindness excluded him from the army and marines, so he enlisted in the Army Air Force. He served in Kentucky testing radar-controlled 20mm cannons in B-25 bombers. He said they lost a crew a week. My father demobilized as a captain and the […]

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Guts of Iron

November 11, 2010 – 9:15 pm

After my mother’s passing, a vegetable never passed my father’s lips. He ate at restaurants and prided himself on his easy BMs or bowel movements. I never heard him burp. Not even when we ate at Tony’s on Wollaston Beach. He would chase down fried clams with a chocolate shake without any indigestion. I mentioned […]

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