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Blog entries by milagros317
I am sure that you enjoyed it. :munch:
I hope that there is some pizza at the party which I am attending tonight. :D
The Guide's Question
In January 1988, I escaped the freezing cold of New York City for a week by taking a seven-day Caribbean cruise. One of the stops on the cruise was Cancun, Mexico.
At that port, I elected to take an optional side trip to the Maya pyramids at Chichen Itza. The trip to...
In March 1963 on my 13th birthday, I noticed that my grandfather was smiling. He was then 70 (which is my present age).
"Why are you smiling, Poppy?" I asked him.
"I woke up this morning and I thought, I'm alive." he said.
"I heard traffic noises and I opened my eyes. I thought, I can...
My first year in college I was living in a dorm populated by freshman at a university which was then still an all-male institution at the undergraduate level. There was one graduate student living on our floor, given a free room to act as an advisor to the freshmen. I will call him Günter, which...
Reflections on an Ordinary Life
My mother never did anything extraordinary or newsworthy. I just want to record some memories here of her life now
that she has died.
She was born on July 23, 1921, the second child in her family, and named Dora. Her family lived in the Morisania...
The funniest typo that I personally experienced was in the summary prepared by a secretary of the written student comments on my teaching evaluations. (The students, besides giving numerical ratings to us, could also write comments. To avoid a professor recognizing a student's handwriting, a...
I have a cousin whose first name is Shlomo who has lived in what is now Israel his whole life. (He was born there in 1929 when it was the British Mandate of Palestine.) He is a distant cousin, my second cousin once removed. In particular, Shlomo's paternal grandmother was a sister to one of my...
The apartment next to mine has been vacant since the end of October. The landlord is having it remodeled and modernized (presumably so it can be rented for a lot more than Mr. Kim, the previous tenant, was paying). For the last three days, in particular, I have been hearing hammering and banging...
Note: This one of two contrasting blog entries involving encounters with international tourists here in New York City. The other entry is "A Good Deed."
An Angry Encounter
It was the first Sunday in June 2010,the day of the Salute to Israel Parade up Fifth Avenue here in New York City. I...
Note: This one of two contrasting blog entries involving encounters with international tourists here in New York City. The other entry is "An Angry Encounter."
A Good Deed
It was early July 2003. I had just finished dinner with a friend at an establishment on West 43rd Street, between...
Better title: How I learned, as a child, to fear totalitarian regimes of both the right and the left
What I have in mind is very simple. An absolute authoritarian state concentrates power, all executive, legislative, and judicial power, into the hands of one person, the dictator. Anybody not...
This is a true story.
First some background on the characters.
I have a grandnephew, whom I will call Ben, which is not his real name. He was 9 years old when this conversation took place, in 2014.
Ben and I were watching a baseball game on ESPN in the home of his parents in Chicago...
This should have been a blog post in the first place, not a regular post. That would have avoided a shitstorm.
It was the spring of 2015. On a warm April day, I was walking south on Broadway, heading to work, passing my local
bank branch just north of 61st Street. A young blonde woman...
This should have been a blog post instead of a regular post in the first place. That would have avoided a shitstorm.
It was the summer of 1991. I was walking downtown on Central Park West going home from the American Museum of
Natural History. It was a sunny day, so I was wearing a...
I went to elementary school, junior high school, and high school in a medium sized town in New Jersey. I recently heard that my fifth grade teacher, whom I will call Miss D., died last month at the age of 88. She was a dedicated and talented teacher and I was sorry to hear it. May she rest in...
