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You Can’t Fight City Hall(Really?) It was a common colloquialism around the lower east side of New York, as one might expect to hear echoing from one tenement building to another—back when I was a kid: rules were rules. We kids picked up on everything our parents might be using in their daily conversations, regardless of their country...
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Sunday, July 4th, 2021 To all you Yankee Doodle Dandies “Hip, hip, hurrah” to and for all of us who have a love affair with the greatest country in the history of the world, the way we believe, and pray it will remain forever. This is to the United States of America, the very grandest...
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“That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)” was a 1949 popular song, like “Old Man River”, its lyrics contrast the toil and intense hardship of the singer’s life with the obliviousness of the natural world. The biggest hit version of the song was by Frankie Laine’s. It first reached the Billboard magazine...
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Father’s Day 2021 Ladies and gentlemen, Boys and girls Big, little, tall or short Whatever the hue God determined you’d be The masks are all gone It’s Father’s day 2021 My guy’s not around But to all, including me Fill this day up with joy and glee It’s meant for young, and even old men...
Read More Staying Sane…
Staying Sane By Lighting Up My World Did you happen to notice the previous fifteen months in this less-than-rarified world of the days and nights in our own civilization right here in our very own little piece of the geography known to most as “La La Land”? If you have experienced the less than...
Read More All things we are…
Remaining today Recapitulations Results must become witnessed All things yesterday, Not knowing what we seek Reprieve is sought, Remaining disconsolate Far from our accustomed lives Fifteen months have passed While Happiness for all has become Prior for most In a day Week Month Without leisure All passed Time at abnormal speed It became a...
Read More Our Memorial Day
Our Memorial Day, 2021 It was 1953 when a very young Harvey Kalmenson raised his right hand, took the oath, and joined the military. It happened to be the United States Army—it didn’t matter what branch of the service it was. The flag was up there for me that day when I took the oath...
Read More 73 Years…
73 Years, Hard to Believe It’s hard to believe just a quick seventy-three years ago, not yet “da harv” was a mighty fourteen years old and was in the process of making, or having, a monumental occurrence in his young life fostered upon him—whether he liked it or not. The year was 1948, WWII had...
Read More Show Biz
Show business is no business! Before you get too excited, let me explain. Many years ago, back in 1951, a very prominent guy named Al Hirschfeld decided it was time to put his sarcastic wit into book form. As a matter of fact, in his field of endeavor, Mr. Hirschfeld—American caricaturist best known for his...
Read More A Dream
Oh boy, did I dream a dream I really liked… The other day I was thinking (now that in itself is a concept). These are my own personal categories of dreams, developed by many years of living, and attempting to be positive at the most trying periods of time. I doubt many of you out there...
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