55 years ago, on February 20, 1970, my 3-year-old baby brother Allen Miller was critically injured in a single car accident. He would pass away six months later. His death affected me in so many ways. At the time, my six-year-old brain couldn’t understand or rationalize the finality of death. Even today, I’m still struggling…
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Landmines
I’ve stepped on many figurative landmines in my life. Sometimes I know where the landmines are and I try to avoid them, but you can’t avoid every landmine. Sometimes you think you’ve stepped in a safe area, only to discover that you’ve placed your foot on an unmarked landmine and BOOM. And in that BOOM,…
Read MoreVale Alan Mansfield
The Facebook post hit me like a punch in the kidney. I’m reposting it here verbatim. From the Sharon O’Neill Facebook fan page. “Kia ora everyone, Yesterday morning I lost the love of my life, Alan. His daughter Lauren and I were with him and he passed comfortably and peacefully. Alan battled for three years…
Read MoreNine Hundred Eleven Words: a Personal Remembrance of September 11, 2001
NOTE: The following post was originally published on September 11, 2009, and was repeated on September 11, 2011. It is repeated today for obvious reasons. The day started out horribly. Two days beforehand, my wifeโs grandfather, Samuel Ginsburg, passed away after a long and valiant battle against Alzheimerโs Disease. That day, we were going to…
Read MoreThose “thoughts and prayers” finally worked, didn’t they?
Yesterday. Winder, Georgia. Another city. Another town. Another school. Another Columbine. Another Stoneman Douglas High. Another Robb Elementary. Another and another and another. In Washington, D.C., a Republican Congressman spent the night in his Congressional office. He got down on his knees and prayed. I can imagine what he said when he heard about the…
Read MoreA second dose of survivor’s guilt.
This is the 54th anniversary of a tragic moment in my life. On February 20, 1970, a horrific car accident gravely injured my brother Allen Miller, who would pass away six months later from his injuries. He was only three years old when the car crash took place. At the time, I was attending first…
Read MoreMel-O-Toons: Cheap cartoons for weekday enjoyment
Follow along with me on this. In my childhood years, there was a simple plan on who would take care of me.โDuring the school year, I would stay with my mother and stepfather in whatever double-deep, double-wide trailer park they were located.โAnd as soon as the school year ended, my Grandma Betty and my great-grandmother…
Read MoreHe entered my room, and I couldn’t move my body.
This happened two weeks ago.โAnd even today, I’m still running it through my mind, trying to figure out what happened. Background. The Town and Village of Green Island suffered a major power outage, which lasted all the way into night time.โAnd rather than stay in my apartment in the dark, I called the Red Roof…
Read MoreJewatholic
I’ve only heard the term “Jewatholic” used by one other person – “Stuttering John” Menendez. Stuttering John was one of Howard Stern’s sidekicks, and at one time his big deal was to go up to famous people and, in the guise of a television reporter asking for interview questions, ask the most offensive and unexpected…
Read MoreNormal is a relative term.
Two weeks ago, I underwent surgery to remove a diabetic abscess from one of my toes. I blogged about it … because, of course I did. I spent the past two weeks healing. And last Friday, the podiatrist felt that my progress had improved to the point where he took the stitches out of what…
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