Timeliness of Albert Camus’ Book, ‘The Plague’
We live in dangerous times. The number of people who have been infected and died from the Coronavirus Pandemic proves
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Heeeeere’s Johnny Carson: Warts & All
There were many amazing things about the late, iconic Johnny Carson, the host of the popular “Tonight Show” on NBC-TV for thirty years (1962 to 1992.) One was that despite smoking four packs of cigarettes a day, he lived to be 79-years-old! What?
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Was John Wilkes Booth a ‘Patsy’ in the Murder Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln?
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” – Saint John the Evangelist Who can
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Argentina, Chile & Cape Horn, the End of the World
At around age ten, my earliest memory of a personality from South America was not of any politician, artist, or
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My View of the COVID-19 Crisis
It’s a hard, scary time for sure. COVID-19 is the enemy, but you can’t see it. You can’t give it a good punch in the nose and a kick in the you-know-where.
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John Denver Took America, and Pop Music-Lovers, Home, Again!
I made my first trip to the West of Ireland, County Mayo, in the early 70s. My late mother, Hanorah
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Recalling Fondly Our Tour of Northern Spain & Portugal
In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it looks like any future family travel plans of ours will be put
Read moreThe Game of Soccer was a Door Opener for me
From the soccer field at South Baltimore’s Latrobe Park (just down the road from historic Fort McHenry), to the ones
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Locust Point Twin Power During WWII
Like his father before him, dad was a proud member of the International Longshoremen Union. Yours truly, in his salad days, was also a member of two ILA Locals – 829 and 1429, both of them located on Hull Street in Locust Point. For a while, in the late 50s, I worked with my dad at the Alcoa S/S Company, then located at pier 9, north side, Locust Point.
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First Dark: A Buffalo Soldier’s Story
The year is 1863. The month is May. The Civil War is raging like a firestorm. By the time this
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