In keeping with visiting my life I called one of my oldest friends tonight someone I’ve known since 1954 when we moved to Long Island. Ron Ostrofsky is as close to an older brother I never had. His parents and my folks met right as we moved to Long Island. And while Ron is about…
DetailsJust about another month done. 2020 continues to be surreal. We are living a “Groundhogs Day” existence. We just keep repeating essentially the same day over and over again. That certainly is how it seems concerning our work life. There is still no work to do in our travel agency. And no one is really…
DetailsIt is interesting what I remember about my last two years in Bethpage, seventh and eighth grade, what stands out in my memory. I really didn’t have any friends. I can’t think of anyone who was there for me during that time. I don’t think if myself as a loner, but I’m thinking I was…
DetailsIn those days, the 60’s my father was also very involved in politics. Long Island was primarily a Republican strong hold. My dad, and therefore me, was a Democrat. He was very active in the Democratic Party and i spent many days campaigning for local Democratic candidates. I remember when we finally won an assembly…
DetailsWell it’s another night. And I can talk about the 60’s. A lot happened for me between the ages of 7 and 17. They are very formative years for everyone. Immortality was a part of my being. There were no limits. I was going to be a Major League Baseball player or a politician or…
DetailsI was a little kid a product of the 1950’s. I was born August 16,1953. So on August 16, 1959 I turned six years old. And by the end of the decade I was six and a half and half way through first grade. I went to elementary school in the Island Trees school district…
DetailsI was watching TV this evening and a special came on about landing on the moon. Turns out it is 51 years to the day that man landed on the moon. As I have written above the summer of 69 was my cross country trip when I was 15 years old. I have detailed it…
DetailsI feel tonight as though I’m in a sort of forced retirement. Yes, technically I am at the age where I could retire. Typically speaking 65 is the age of retirement. And I am approaching 67 years old. That, in and of itself, is another story. But I wasn’t and haven’t been in any hurry…
DetailsWhat was I doing fifty years ago today? I don’t know exactly but I was in Israel. I was spending the summer of 1970 on USY United Synagogue Youth, Israel Pilgrimage. And what an exceptional trip this was. The year before I had crisscrossed the United States on USY on Wheels and now one year…
DetailsOver this past year the nights have pretty much been kind to me. I get into bed and I can read, listen to music check out the news on my iPad and just pretty much wind down. And what helps calm me the most in Visiting My Life. I get to write a few sentences…
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