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Showing posts with label Nephew Mark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nephew Mark. Show all posts
Friday, August 8, 2025

Tonight we will be among the old people gathered to listen to (and cheer for) Men at Work, Toto and Christopher Cross

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  Only one of these original members of Men at Work will be onstage this evening at Blossom Music Center. I have long since passed the age w...
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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...
Monday, April 7, 2025

The 40-year-old niece and the 50-year-old nephew

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Here's a video from 1988 in which 18-year-old me writes my 3-year-old niece Jessica's name on a piece of paper for her. And she deli...
Friday, October 11, 2024

Revisiting the decade when you grew up...warts and all

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  Howard Jones playing a quintessentially 80s instrument (the "keytar") on August 31 in Cleveland. Several weeks ago, my nephew Ma...
Monday, July 15, 2024

When you're not someone who swears a lot, people find it either funny or disconcerting when you do

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It's a minor miracle that, having grown up with Bob Tennant as my father, I'm not someone who swears particularly often. (NOTE: We u...
Monday, April 8, 2024

The day is finally here! Yes, my nephew's birthday (what day did you think I meant?)

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I don't know what year this was, but my choice of full-body thermal underwear suggests I was about to embark on an Arctic expedition of ...
Friday, March 29, 2024

I don't go to a lot of concerts, but the one I'm attending tonight is special for reasons beyond music

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By Derek Russell - https://www.flickr.com/photos/184778751@N03/48954387052/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8...
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Friday, July 14, 2023

I'm trying to remember how we planned vacations in the pre-Internet age

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As I mentioned a few days ago , my family and I recently took a fun and relaxing vacation to Bethany Beach, Delaware. I booked our rental ho...
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Saturday, July 3, 2021

This seems as good a time as any to once again mention that my mom once hit me with a bag of Fazio's Italian bread

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My mom passed away one year ago today, so my choice here was either to write about how much we miss her and how wonderful she was, or to bri...
Thursday, April 8, 2021

When your niece or nephew may as well be your sibling

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There are two people in the world to whom I could text the words "goony goo goo" and get a laughing/crying emoji in return. One is...
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

The 40-Year-Old Nephew

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Today my nephew Mark turns 40 years old. When something like this happens, you are forced to deal with the fact that you yourself are not qu...
Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Meeting famous people and looking stupid

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You see that distorted photo above? (I can't seem to fix it. Sorry about that.) The man in the middle, wearing the black T-shirt...
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