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The Time Has Come, The Walrus Said,

Posted on May 5, 2021 by profkf

To talk of many things…. This has been a year like no other that I can remember, so many life events have happened that it is almost impossible to realize it’s only been just one year up the line. Let’s … Continue reading →

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Fragments

Posted on April 29, 2021 by profkf

I still look in the mirror and see 19. I can taste the salt of the ocean, I can feel the sunshine on my skin or, today, the rain on my face. I look around and see the same things … Continue reading →

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Pater Familias

Posted on March 31, 2021 by profkf

When you are 16, you are immortal. In the summer of my 16-19th years on the planet, I would hardly sleep, we, as a group, would indulge in cheap tequila (Jose Gavilan was the beverage of choice, I believe it … Continue reading →

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A little short of a month ago

Posted on March 17, 2021 by profkf

I wrote a post about getting to the end of a dream and how it seemed a bit distant. Some of that has changed, the reality is that a lot of what I was worried about seems, at least as … Continue reading →

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It’s been almost a year

Posted on March 8, 2021 by profkf

March 13, 2020…the day the world stood still…both Sue and I left our respective schools that day and had no clue the extent of what was about to happen. I don’t think I need to revisit any of it for … Continue reading →

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Where do you go when you get to the end of your dream?

Posted on February 20, 2021 by profkf

I’ve always looked forward to my “golden years”. I have been working in one form or another since I was about 10 years old. I asked for a snow shovel for Christmas 1962, why? because there was money to be … Continue reading →

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Well the highway is alive tonight…

Posted on February 12, 2021 by profkf

About a week ago I was in an incredibly moribund state of mind not in the strict sense of the primary definition but more secondary. My lovely wife was concerned I might be clinically depressed. It was snowing (again), we … Continue reading →

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By and By…

Posted on February 6, 2021 by profkf

Martin Fitzpatrick Sr., Carlo Babuder, Fanny Babuder, Martin Fitzpatrick Jr, Lena Fitzpatrick., David Lozupone, Dora Lozupone Dominick P. Starace, Iriving “Sonny” Abrams. Adelaide Abrams, Cathy Sloan. This is the “roll call” of the names of the men and women in … Continue reading →

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The End of the Innocence

Posted on January 31, 2021 by profkf

Courtesy of Bruce Hornsby/Don Henley “O’ beautiful, for spacious skiesBut now those skies are threateningThey’re beating plowshares into swordsFor this tired old man that we elected kingArmchair warriors often failAnd they’ve been poisoned by these fairy talesThe lawyers clean up … Continue reading →

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Watching and Waiting

Posted on January 16, 2021 by profkf

Just the title of an old Moody Blues song that sparked the ideas here today. I’ve been watching the events of the past week or so play out and I find myself constantly shaking my head in disbelief. I think … Continue reading →

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