With some people it requires advancing years to bring a niggling sense of mortality.
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Suprise Me
My Birthday
Prompted By Those We Miss
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With some people it requires advancing years to bring a niggling sense of mortality.
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Tradition!
Prompted By Lost in Translation
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Tradition! As a child I heard Yiddish spoken by my European-born grandparents and my first-generation American parents, yet I never had the curiosity to learn to speak it myself. But my parents subscribed to New York’s Yiddish theatre company, the Folksbiene, and I’d go with them and follow the plays by reading the English supertitles.…
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My Driving Record (Updated)
Prompted By Car Trouble
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Maybe I should have subpoenaed my grandchildren as character witnesses?
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Some Of My Travels
Prompted By Travels
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Retrospect: Some Of My Travels By Kevin J. W. Driscoll (c) 2024 I‘ve been around the block more times than a city bus, mostly due to my stint as a computer trainer, a job that seemed to require me to be everywhere but home. The US, of course, was my stomping ground, a vast…
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Blue Bug
Prompted By My First Car
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…the waves reaching up the beach and pulling my sleeping bag with me in it out to sea.
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Sisters 2025
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My 1966 Plymouth Valiant convertible
Prompted By My First Car
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My parents bought the car in the fall of 1965. It was a 1966 model, and they custom-ordered it with all the features they (and I) wanted. I was 14 years old, a sophomore in high school, and the age to get a driver’s license in New Jersey was 17, so I clearly wasn’t going…
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I Don’t Know How It Feels To Be U
Prompted By Inequality
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Things were getting better. Or were they?
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The time I didn’t stand up
Prompted By Regrets
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Within the next few years, the American Academy of Pediatrics would declare that no child should have her or his recess taken away because of their classroom conduct,..
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Old Fashioned 4th of July
Prompted By Independence
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There were games and water balloon fights. I think of scenes from The Music Man, when I remember those holiday picnics.
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