My high school teammate George (Sparky) Anderson; in memoriam. From: Harvey Kalmenson, November 3, 2010 My high school shortstop is illGet well, get up it’s time for us to playI wish I had the power to heal himAnd the others I’ve lost along the wayI see him there with me, just yesterdayOn this field at…
Can you imagine growing up without the benefit of having tasted peanut butter? I was one of those guys who fell in love with the great American spread when I entered the United States Army at age nineteen. It was one morning at breakfast when I first discovered the delight of the sticky, life-perserving substance….
Trying not to complain usually isn’t a difficult task for me. I like to heal a wound and move on to higher ground. Most of what people do and say I can manage to take with a grain of salt. The old adage of not taking something someone says to you personally is a practiced…
Don’t tell me about my great passion. This is who I am and who I have been for my lifetime to date. Scenario A)The gun goes off and you run as fast as you can for as long as you can. Scenario B)They give you the ball and you crash into whomever or whatever happens…
Hey, happy anniversary, da harv. This blog is number forty-five. In just one short year I’ve had the audacity of taking up the amount of time is required for you to read sixty-six thousand and five of my written words. One could say what makes this fact tolerable is that my writing is similar to…
Books are my friends, my true friends. They give, and give, and continue to give. When I only want to concern myself with my needs, and wants, and joys, and perhaps even fantasies or dreams, books are there just for me; selfish da harv. My books are old and new. They are my stewards. These…
It is healthier to express than repress; reduce the protagonist’s stress by being the protagonist who echoes the embodiment of his or her life’s burden, be it real or merely symbolic. Encourage those around you to enjoy your suffering, and to share in what appears to be impossible angst. And for many close enough to…
Confucius says:(or maybe he didn’t) “Women who really don’t like to do it should marry a very old man.” (Those women); They’d be best served however if their search for a marriage partner stayed clear of any resemblance to my family lineage fowarded on by my mother’s side. Long before the advent of Viagra, or…
“Sum And Substance”: An often-used phrase; it’s probably an impossibility to come through any of today’s school systems without hearing this popular mathematical term. In fact, simply stated, it’s nothing more than the aggregate of two or more numbers being determined by plain and simple addition: (like) The sum of 6 and 8 is 14….
Most experienced actors; the successful ones, that is, enjoy being given performance notes by a director. Make no mistake… giving an actor performance notes is a distinct craft within itself. Some consider it to be the art of psychology at its highest state. Some actors have been known to be a little touchy, considering any…