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Buffalo, Queen City of Lake Erie
During the shipping season, at the Erie Basin Marina on Buffalo’s waterfront, you can often watch the massive bulk of a lake freighter glide by the...
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Echoes from yesterday
The entrance gates are a massive, granite and wrought iron affair that would do honor to a Loire Valley Chateau. “Forest Lawn” is emblazoned across...
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ABC Islands Visit- Part V Bonaire
ABC Islands Visit- Part V- Bonaire- Leeward Antilles Tuesday, December 26, 2024- Bonaire We were up by 6 A.M, prepped and readied to set out. We had...
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ABC Island Visit Part IV Curacao
ABC Islands Visit- Part IV- Curacao Wed. December 25,2024- Christmas Day We were up and ready by 6:30 A.M. It was already 80 degrees and humid out...
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ABC Islands visit Part III
ABC Islands Visit- Part III Tuesday, December 24,2024- Aruba- Leeward Antilles We were up by 7 A.M. It was already 86 degrees, hot and humid outside...
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Airy,
Posted on Sun, 07 Jul 2024
Airy,
I have always placed my faith in the common sense, decency and wisdom of the average voter. They have the right values and usualy follow through with them at the ballot box.
Now, I don't know what to make of the evil one's...
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We do Insert, but sometimes
Posted on Fri, 26 Jan 2024
We do Insert, but sometimes we forget "thingamajig." :(
JXM
Read full commentPosted in Forgetting something? Just say London Bridge.
Interesting sketch, Paul. I
Posted on Tue, 17 Oct 2023
Interesting sketch, Paul. I am reminded of Wolfe's dictum, "you can't go home again." Principally, because it isn't there any more. The river of time has carried away alll traces of that remebered visage. New people and new lives inhabit the time...
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Thoughtful piece, Penny. I
Posted on Sun, 13 Aug 2023
Thoughtful piece, Penny. I could almost see the young lad materialize and talk with the young Miss. I wonder if she ever came back by herself to continue the conversation?
JXM
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Great portrait of the lads
Posted on Sun, 20 Aug 2023
Great portrait of the lads ata school, Paul. I could almost see Mr. Chips in the background, wishing the lads well.
JXM
Read full commentPosted in Steve Mason and the Last Day of School (Part One of Two)
Interesting observation, Ewan
Posted on Tue, 22 Nov 2022
Interesting observation, Ewan, We explain their audacity and their clueless state of understanding abhorent behavior with the saying "You can't shame the shameless." It is an awful confluence of nuanced messianic vision, outsized egos and avarice...
Read full commentPosted in Remembering John Fitzgerald Kennedy- 60 years later
verbal portrait worthy of a Winslow Homer
Posted on Sun, 24 Jul 2022
Great verbal portrait, Paul. I could "see" what you described as well as feel the wind and the ocean spray sweeping across the moors on a chilly dusk. Winslow Homer tried to capture what you have written and did so artfully, as you have done. A...
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I couldn't summarize it any
Posted on Sun, 29 May 2022
I couldn't summarize it any better, David.
Thanks,
JXM
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David, Paul, Celtic Man,
Posted on Fri, 15 Apr 2022
David, Paul, Celtic Man,
Thank you all for taking the time to read and comment. I appreciate your comments in the spirit in which they were given.
JXM
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Jen,
Posted on Sun, 27 Mar 2022
Jen,
Thank you for ethereal visions of a land of make believe, that we all wish we could visit. Sugar plums abounding in small minds, faeries alight on the wind. Butterflies, colorful and flutttering, ditsracting to the eyes. It is...
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