Daily Morning Walks — Need or Madness?

MY DAILY EARLY WALKS OUTDOORS, RESPONDING TO A PHYSIOLOGIC NEED, OR A COMPULSIVE INSANITY? By Howard
You may have noticed me out there, daily, walking, regardless of the weather, unless it’s snowing, slippery, unplowed or not sanded. Even zero temperatures don’t prevent me, I simply don my Antarctica coat, i.e.: the coat I wore [...]

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Final Writing About Family

MY FINAL WRITING ON MY FAMILY AND WHY
I have found writing about my family very painful and while writing, I often found tears flowing down my face. Our mother, we would often find in her bedroom, alone, talking to her dead mother, or grandparents. She also insisted that she brought me back alive from [...]

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Son of Immigrants

GROWING UP WITH IMMIGRANT PARENTS IN NEW YORK
By Howard
My first memories are of Herzl St, in Brownsville, Brooklyn, NY, where I spent the first 6 – 7 years of my life in a 4 story tenement, without an elevator, central heating, or hot water, which were supplied by a [...]

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