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When I retired from my firm at the end of 2019, a lawyer with whom I had worked closely for many years gave me as a retirement present a gift certificate to “The Great Courses,” which was originally a DVD provider and now is primarily a streaming service of academic lectures given by prominent professors…
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Originally, I thought I had no new stories for this prompt. So I did a RetroFlash which linked back to a story from a couple of years ago about taking my driver’s test during the Blackout of 1965. (I do not believe that breaks the Official RetroFlash Rules.) But, as I later on the same…
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I’ll RetroFlash if you don’t mind Via link to my previous “Driving Blind.” Where I described to my very best My quite abnormal first driving test. (It was during the Blackout, I might remind.) Let me quickly recap that scene Where they could not use the eye test screen. So those who didn’t have…
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I’ve written a fair bit about my wise mother and the advice she gave me over the years in my earlier Retro stories — certainly too often for me to try to link to here. Though, as I think about it further, her advice was rarely imparted verbally (i.e., “Son, sit down and let me…
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I alluded to some auctioning activities I had participated in in my recent “To DIY For” story, where I spoke of acquiring sets of “players” for the vintage hockey game that I bought at a lighting store in Milwaukee and then fitted on a table I built from old shelving. Here it is: The players…
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Let me preface my story with a disclaimer. When I was in high school, a bunch of us were discussing the Holocaust. At one point, one of my classmates (like me, an affluent and entitled Jew) took a deep sigh and exclaimed, “Yes, we certainly have suffered!” I kept my mouth shut at the time,…
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Having, like a good number of us, already written a number of COVID stories over the past two years, such as this one and this one, I saw no need to go over already covered ground this week. Rather, I thought I’d focus on my recent Jamaica vacation. And my intention is not to make…
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1984: The “Groundhog Day” of Banned Books*
Prompted By Banned Books
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Eyeballs: A Childhood Horror Story
Prompted By The Eyes Have It
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Driving Blind Redux – A RetroFlash
Prompted By The Eyes Have It
/ Stories

Thomas Wolfe Was Wrong; Mom Was Right.
Prompted By What My Mother Told Me
/ Stories

Auction Action
Prompted By Auctions and Raffles
/ Stories

Arthur Shutkin, Ukrainian Refugee(?)
Prompted By Refugees
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Coming Full Circle*
Prompted By Pandemic, Year Three
/ Stories
