Recently, as a guest performer at the Sportsmen’s Tavern in Buffalo, I was introduced to the audience as a songwriter and a middle school English teacher. The welcoming response was mostly about the teaching part, as one patron shouted “Oh no!” and another, “God Bless you!”
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Over the last several months the Warren County School District Administration has been trying to sell the residents of the Western and Eastern attendance areas on the necessity to close Youngsville and Sheffield High Schools pinpointing a Qualified Zone Academy Bonds loan taken out on the ...
I do not know about you, but I remember when I got my first job vividly. The day after I turned sixteen, I went downtown to apply for a job for Christmas. Mind you, my birthday is in September, but I did not want to miss the opportunity.
I went to Sidey’s department store. I went to the ...
Editor’s note: This column was written at Thanksgiving 2006.
Thanksgiving weekend, for me, is the first gift of the holiday season. Now that the arrival of a grandchild has changed the family Christmas venue to Boston, Thanksgiving is at our house. It’s a much easier deal.
I find ...
I grew up in the 1950s, north of gritty Youngstown, Ohio, close enough to see the nighttime red sky from the open hearth steel making furnaces.
Many of my classmates’ parents spoke broken English. The ‘50s were boom years. America was the sole industrial nation standing after World War ...
Next week we celebrate Thanksgiving. At this point I have no plans but it will all come together. How Thanksgiving has changed down through the years.
We used to go to Grandma Swanson’s but when she no longer could do it, we went to my sister-in-law’s. I always worked right up through ...