I live by your golden rules today. I miss your company. Seven kids: three boys and poor baby Sally, then three healthy girls, almost 20 years later. We lost Rob, who you are tending to here way back when. Now, two of your daughters have kids and you have grandchildren, too. I wish we could …
Sleeves rolled up, momentarily without a cigar in his mouth, that is John R. Bott, late editor of The New Mexican and former city editor of the New York Post, reaching for the phone and growling instructions as he makes sure the paper gets out in Santa Fe in 1974. Mr. Bott — and I …
Morning sun lightens the room. I stir. Cooper, the former animal shelter guy, hops up onto the bed and extends a white paw as if to affirm we still have a deal. We do.
I was inserting this below but wanted it to stand alone. I choke up every time I read it, thinking of the civil rights movement and my late father. And maybe newspapers, too. San Francisco Chronicle, March 26, 1965 25,000 Cry ‘Freedom’” By Bob Robertson, Chronicle Correspondent, Montgomery, Ala. — More than 25,000 American Negroes …
Those of us of age recently remembered where we were at the moment we heard the news of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination on Nov. 22, 1963. Before that shocking day, I remember older people telling me where they were when they heard the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Unfortunately, 911 since …
We all struggled to understand what couldn’t be understood. Beyond the images of a young president’s vibrant life and sudden death, the framework of our lives had been shaken, our leader taken from us.
In the news this Friday, Sept. 27, 2013 morning: Climate change: Scientists can now say with extreme confidence that human activity is the dominant cause of the global warming observed since the 1950s, a new report by an international scientific group said Friday. Calling man-made warming “extremely likely,” the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change used the strongest …
Until I was 40, I could get everything I owned in the back of my pickup. Now, at 64, I’m having central air conditioning installed at my house. I try to keep my head high by saying it’s mostly for the dog.
1. 9/11. 2. President Obama says a “credible threat of U.S. military action” in Syria was critical to movement for diplomatic resolution of chemical weapons crisis. 3. Friend struggles to save son from spiraling into chasm of mental illness. 4. Rainwater lingers in the morning.
The food I have remembered the longest was a ham and cheese sandwich washed down with chocolate milk at the Ohio State Fair sometime in the 1950s. My only other memories of that fair are the cow made from butter and Sky King and Penny, who might have been the day’s lead entertainers. The sandwich, …
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