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Showing posts with label Mapledale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mapledale. Show all posts
Friday, July 4, 2025

My interactions with recreational fireworks as a kid were nearly disastrous

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I don't know if kids still do this, but when I was growing up, my friends and I would play with fireworks any and every chance we got. B...
Friday, February 21, 2025

Having the "mean" teacher can sometimes be the best thing

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  The woman pictured above is Ruth Schwarzenberg, my teacher for both 2nd and 6th grades at Mapledale Elementary School. Having a teacher tw...
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Monday, January 20, 2025

That time I was invited to the presidential inauguration and didn't go (though I WAS on the Channel 8 news)

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This is what the set of the WJW Cleveland newscast looked like in 1977 when they aired a little segment about me. (NOTE: This post originall...
Monday, September 23, 2024

A lifetime ago, I used to walk home from school to eat lunch and watch game shows

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I logged countless episodes of "Card Sharks" growing up. I am repeatedly reminded of the fact that I grew up in a very different t...
Wednesday, May 8, 2024

What, me retire?

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Not long ago, Terry and I had an overdue check-in with Dave, our Merrill Lynch financial guy (NOTE: That's not Dave above. That's Al...
Monday, February 19, 2024

I recently used an honest-to-goodness print dictionary

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The other day I was reading an online article that described someone as "magisterial," one of many words for which I think  I know...
Wednesday, September 1, 2021

The excitement of finding out who your teacher was going to be

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When I attended Mapledale Elementary School back in the Bronze Age, we engaged in a particular early-September ritual that now brings back f...
Monday, June 21, 2021

An after-school basketball program in the early 80s expanded my worldview a little

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Big bad Lincoln Elementary (now Wickliffe Elementary) When I was in fifth and sixth grade at Mapledale Elementary School, we had an after-sc...
Thursday, June 3, 2021

They're tearing down my high school, but I was more sad when they got rid of my elementary school

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  Rendering of the new Wickliffe Schools campus One of the biggest things going on right now in my little hometown of Wickliffe, Ohio, is th...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Having a private instructor makes me feel rich

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Until recently, I had never had a private saxophone lesson in my life. I learned to play as a fourth-grader at Mapledale Elementary School i...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

A year without parenting milestones

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As the 2017-18 academic year gets underway, my wife Terry and I find ourselves very much "in process" when it comes to being the p...
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Monday, February 22, 2016

Four things I remember vividly about elementary school

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(1) The Smell It wasn't a bad smell. It was just a smell that you can only experience inside a school. And for whatever reason, it gene...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Four things I miss

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This is what old people do, you know: Talk about the way things used to be and how it was so much better back in their day. I don't kn...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

Things I'll miss about having a child in elementary school

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Every year since 1999, we have had at least one kid attending Wickliffe Elementary School, a stately(?) old brick building that stands majes...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

25 things that make me happy

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(1) Getting the mail (2) Sitting down in my seat right before the start of a hockey game (3) John Coltrane playing "My Favorite Thing...