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Marriage
"Skimming a review in the New Yorker of Elizabeth Gilbert’s book 'Committed,' about her marriage, got me to thinking (again) about mine."
Irving Plotnick
"It seems I knew Irv forever. "
Stickball
"Growing up in the Bronx in the '30s, the game of baseball was known to us as the sport played by professional ball players with names like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig or Mel Ott."
Going to the Movies
"Now that I have cable TV, I am able to see a movie 'at any time of the day or night.'"
A Roof Over Your Head
"I have been thinking about all the places I have lived over my 81 years."
A Child’s Jewish New Year in the Bronx (with apologies to Dylan Thomas)
"From the age of 10, my mother made it clear to me that I had to go to Shul on Rosh Hashana--Yom Kippur. She did not go to Shul. I went alone."
Cars
Draft of "#101 CARS"
#101 Cars
"It was 9:55 AM on Thursday August 14, 2008, and I had just returned from saying goodbye to my 1999 Toyota Camry."
Music in the Life of a Kid in the Bronx
Another (later?) draft of #44 Music in My Life
#44 Music in My Life
"For some people, their lives would be empty and unfulfilled without music."