Saturday, February 27, 2016
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Monday, February 22, 2016
FUN GROWING UP SOME TIME AGO
BOB-NOW DRESSES HIMSELF
CHEF BOB's ONION SOUP
Sunday, February 21, 2016
OUR FIRST CAR
Friday, February 19, 2016
FIRST A BIKE! THEN THE FAMILY CAR
Thursday, February 18, 2016
HAWAII 1944
Rediscovered this typewritten recollection--might be of interest to succeeding generations:
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
KATHRYN LAURENTINE MCALOON NOONAN FAMILY
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
PEARL HARBOR DAY
pearl harbor continued
insights-invasion of the Philippines
Monday, February 15, 2016
COLLEGE!, ANYBODY?
Maybe I am getting old and may have lost my pep
Either that or I am now badly out of step
Despite current thinking, I’m just not syncing
I say all kids need not go to college
, but that’s not what their parents are thinking
It is a status thing to say,”of course, my kid goes to.”…..
They should add,”whether or not he wants to
And when the kid drops out he’s right back where he started.
Trying to find the niche where his heart is.
A CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK
A CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK
We come into this world endowed to one degree or another with characteristics bestowed upon us by the combination of parental dna.
How we employ those gifts or impairments is in part up to us. In a sense, we really are chips off the old block, but it is our decisions which determine whether we are to be carbon copies of our forbears or users of inherited abilities which equip us to advance family standing and raise expectations for our offsprings.
Environmental conditions cannot be overcome in some situations – the the child doesn’t have what it takes to rise above circumstances and
replicates the old block syndrome of non achievement, poor social adjustment and conflict with the system-a “what can you expect from him” classification.
Others utilize what they have inherited and rise above their beginnings becoming objects of admiration in our society and sometimes used as examples to be emulated .
The block from which I descended had some good qualities from which I and my children have benefitted. Although denied education beyond grade 8, both parents were very bright, and I think their gift of intelligence is probably what saved me. They had some cultural deficiencies, as well, and that part of the Old mBlock is what I had to overcome. I suffered but in general succeede
WHAT IS FUNNY TODAY?
What’s So Funny
Old time radio comedienne, Molly McGee, sometimes remarked to her husband, Fibber McGee,”Taint funny, McGee”. In recent years, I might have said that to somebody, myself, because what I deemed to be funny at onetime ain’t funny any more.
I would venture to assert that I am familiar with as many bad words as anybody, and might even admit I might have employed one or two myself in my misguided youth.
But that was then, and now is now.
I find myself impatient with the routine use of profanity in most situations today and find myself assessing the user’s linguistic limitations.
Famous comic, George Carlin, once said he reserved the right to use selected words in certain contexts, and I respect that with that proviso.
In an earlier phase of my life, I accumulated 300 comedy albums none of which contained language you could not have used in church. They were based on funny perceptions misperceptions, situations we encounter in our lives. Standup comics rely on shock to
Get audiences to laugh today. For me to turn them off represents a statement of philosophy.
I have tried to promote clean, funny things on Facebook, and in my estimation I am wasting my time. It is not catching on.
I think the language of choice today reflects a general decline in our culture.
WHAT EXCITES ME?
This? What’s exciting?
I’ve always been excitable, but not many things excite me. For example, I don’t exalt because Uconn won a basketball game, or the Red Sox got lucky.
But I have an experience every morning which does excite me—it’s when my wife gets out of bed and I will know I will have her another day. That’s what I think is worth getting excited about.
If I win a little money in the lottery, that’s nice and I am thankful, but not elated.
On the other hand, I got excited earlier today when we received a phone call from my heart doctor saying that my recent examination showed no problems, When I knew it was the doctor calling on a Sunday afternoon, I think it could have been said I was excited in a negative sort of way, but it could not have had a more positive measure of excitement.
I guess what I am saying that I am not impervious to certain kinds of excitement but not on a mental roller coaster of emotions.
Please pardon me for paraphrasing the expression I used when I worked: “it doesn't excite me because I have to go to work Monday anyway”---I am not above making exceptions given proper stipulations of certain excitements
Sunday, February 14, 2016
Valentine's Day. 2016
Wednesday, February 03, 2016
A LESSON FROM ''FABLES'' 1852
