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Going Back, Part Six: 163B Marshall Street
A Quick Note I just want to express gratitude to everyone who has been reading this account of memories jogged...
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Going Back, Part Five: The Embassy
I’ve been struggling for a while with how to tell the tale of my next residence in Syracuse, of my...
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Going Back, Part Four: The Daily Orange
When we went back to Syracuse recently, we got to wander the halls of some of the buildings that had...
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Going Back, Part Three: Seneca
By all rights, this account of one residential location, for one semester, should be the shortest of my memories stimulated...
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Going Back, Part Two: Day Hall
See Part One here for the story of how I swept carpets, washed dishes and met the girl of my...
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Going Back, Part One: Dellplain Hall
It would be hard to overstate the importance of Syracuse to my life. When I was in high school, it...
40 Years Sober
For this week’s Sunday Song (which I usually post on my Instagram), I decided to embrace Aimee Mann’s “Wise Up.”...
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Christmas Is Interesting
So, Christmas is interesting. I grew up in a non-religious family, and have personally been an atheist since the concept...
Fathers.
I keep writing this over and over, and I keep getting tripped up on explaining how I’ve come to feel...
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14,244 Days
Thirtty-nine years ago today, I woke up hung over for the last time. It wasn’t the first time I was...