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December 31, 2009 10:04 AM EST --
I turned 80 this year. It’s neither a surprise or a distinction today. It’s an age most of my friends have reached.
In my youth I thought anyone who was 80 was old and feeble, . . .
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August 23, 2009 07:23 PM EDT --
My oldest granddaughter went to her first prom recently. She seemed to accept it as routine and I suppose it was. Children today begin dancing and dating in the seventh or eighth grade.
It . . .
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August 17, 2009 06:26 PM EDT --
How did you get the nickname “rubberman” when you were in the army? The questioner was one of my grandchildren.
The fact is, I told him; “ I acquired two . . .
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August 09, 2009 11:29 AM EDT --
When I was a young boy in the 1930s our family always rode in a used car.
My father worked in a steel factory at a time the United Steelworkers of America had little bargaining power. As a result, . . .
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July 20, 2009 09:32 AM EDT --
‘”Memory is like a long broken night” — Graham Greene
I don’t find that so, but reading a recent biography of the author, The Life of Grahan Greene – . . .
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March 08, 2009 06:20 PM EDT --
A few years ago an elderly priest, a holy, kind and generous man, a man who has devoted his entire life to the service of God, confided to me that at funerals when he is . . .
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March 07, 2009 10:50 AM EST --
As graduation time nears it’s time to ponder about college and graduation and our hopes. Well, anyway, it causes me to ponder.
When I went to college it was affordable, a year’s tuition . . .
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February 25, 2009 04:49 PM EST --
SNOWBALL
Book review by Joseph P . Ritz
Billionaire Warren Buffett has been the subject of books and articles since the public first became aware his investments . . .
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January 22, 2009 11:27 AM EST --
I was long grown up before the arrival of today’s Service Economy, a term which is like calling crop harvesting a country vacation.
When I was a child, we had pleasant-voiced women employed . . .
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January 16, 2009 04:38 PM EST --
“Why do you always lie when you leave a message on the answering machine?”
The voice on the answering machine belonged to my youngest daughter.
“I’ve lived here long enough. I know you’re . . .
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December 20, 2008 11:52 AM EST --
The pastor during most of my school days was an authoritative Benedictine monk of Irish descent, Father Gregory, who patrolled the parish on Sundays looking for male parishioners who were dishonoring . . .
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October 16, 2008 04:45 PM EDT --
I judge candidates by their proposals, that is what they said they will do if elected. Of course no candidate is going to fulfill all his promises or see all his proposals become law, particularly in the . . .
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August 28, 2008 04:25 PM EDT --
I remember 2008 as the year my heart was stopped and I talked to God.
Well, it could have been God. I thought it was. I was sure it was. It . . .
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August 22, 2008 08:48 PM EDT --
Fifty years is a long time to be married to the same person. During that time we who have been married that long have changed significantly , both bodily and intellectually. Neither of us looks . . .
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July 20, 2008 10:30 PM EDT --
Ireland is a country of spell binding beauty. Its people are deservedly known for their friendliness and hospitality, but I'm convinced that a major reason its population is less than . . .
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January 24, 2008 09:20 PM EST --
I had prepared a couple of lines of patter I was going to say at my 50th high school reunion.
Standing in front of my fellow graduates and their wives and husbands, microphone in hand, I planned to . . .
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January 12, 2008 05:04 PM EST --
I was a private first class in June of 1950 and planning to attend Seattle University, which was 60 miles from Fort Lewis. where the 2nd Division was based. The 4th Regimental Combat Team, . . .
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January 04, 2008 07:39 PM EST --
Those who think of the 1950s as dull and nearly sexless never lived through that tumultuous era. Those of us who were young then, remember a decade crammed with excitement, change, conflict . . .
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November 07, 2007 05:35 PM EST --
Fado means fate in Portuguese. It’s also the name of a particular kind of haunting music heard principally in small cafes and bars in Lisbon. Spain has its foot stomping, fast-paced, . . .
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October 05, 2007 08:44 PM EDT --
We didn’t have classes in sex education when I attended a Catholic high school in the 1950s. We learned about it from more knowledgeable boys. Not only was there no sex education, there was . . .
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