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How to live your life note by note | The Old Guy

29.03.2025 5

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In defense of protest in Trump’s America | The Old Guy

22.03.2025 2

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On finding joy | The Old Guy

15.03.2025 4

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I consider myself an honorary lesbian, and here’s why | The Old Guy

08.03.2025 30

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On the ‘disappearance’ of schools on Staten Island | The Old Guy

01.03.2025 2

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On hate, fear and love | The Old Guy

23.02.2025 10

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5 pieces of advice for anyone who is aging | The Old Guy

15.02.2025 10

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I don’t like what’s going on in our country. Not one damned bit. | The Old Guy

08.02.2025 8

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Remembering the life of a musician and friend who was beloved on Staten Island | The Old Guy

01.02.2025 4

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Thoughts on how to rage, forgive and push away suffering in the later years | The Old Guy

25.01.2025 10

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How joy doomed the Democrats | The Old Guy

18.01.2025 1

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Staten Island problems: Construction, no parking and gentrification | The Old Guy

11.01.2025 9

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It’s not for sissies, but it’s worth the trip | The Old Guy

Listening to the traffic outside our bedroom window and smiling because we don’t have to deal with it. That wonderfully cozy 15 minutes that feels...

04.01.2025 4

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A murder, a Staten Islander’s death and the question of compassion | The Old Guy

It started when the CEO of United Health Care was assassinated. The killer had etched into his bullets the words “deny” depose” and defend,” three...

29.12.2024 5

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We will all die one day; so what happens next? | The Old Guy

Here’s an expression I’ve been hearing a lot of lately: “What happens next?” I hear it in a specific context, relating to the current state of...

21.12.2024 4

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On that special gift for humans -- music | The Old Guy

Joan and I recently spent a lovely evening with my friends and associate musicians from our church choir at a local eatery where our choir director...

14.12.2024 4

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On loss...of every e-mail I ever sent! | The Old Guy

It was an accident. My finger hit the wrong button and, in a flash, all my “sent” messages disappeared from their e-mail folder. I panicked. I...

07.12.2024 9

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The women who came before | The Old Guy

Well, I managed to stick my big dumb old white guy foot in it again. An article in “The Atlantic” entitled “The Growing Gender Divide, Three...

30.11.2024 3

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On the demise of my beloved book bag, and how it helped me let go of the past | The Old Guy

I’m not a hoarder. I am a collector and an archivist. There’s a difference. I collect and archive reel-to-reel tapes, cassettes, vinyl. I have a...

23.11.2024 4

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The Old Guy: On COVID and being a health warrior

Joan and I recently got another COVID vaccine shot. ‘Why?’ you might ask. The bad news, as I’ve previously stated and that has been certified by...

16.11.2024 7

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The Old Guy: My post-election thoughts

They didn’t pick up the trash Tuesday morning. I thought that was odd and then I remembered it was Election Day. Joan and I had voted on Oct. 26....

09.11.2024 4

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This is what phone banking before Georgia early voting was like | The Old Guy

I recently phone banked ahead of the Oct. 15 early voting in Georgia. As usual with every time I’ve done this, I was surprised by the result. The...

02.11.2024 6

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When it comes to your body, it’s better to know than not to know | The Old Guy

Joan and I have been lucky enough to find many great doctors to tend to our various ailments, which only get more pronounced as we age. One of the...

19.10.2024 5

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The Old Guy: On navigating ‘survival mode,’ and coming out better on the other side

Nobody wants to walk through this world uninformed. We all want to gain as much knowledge as we can so we can navigate the storms of life...

12.10.2024 3

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Scooch, stunad, gagootz: The Old Guy breaks down some under-used expressions

I was thinking the other day about verbal expressions my family used that I don’t hear a lot anymore. For example: “scooch.” In my family of...

05.10.2024 4

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The Old Guy: On America and settler colonialism

I’m not a “my country right or wrong” kind of guy. I’m more of a “my country right AND wrong.” There is so much that I love about America...

28.09.2024 3

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What it’s really like when a new house is being built on your Staten Island block | The Old Guy

Let’s talk about the four two family structures in the room. On July 25, the same day Joan went into hospital for a four-day stay, work began on...

21.09.2024 3

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The Old Guy: My guide to non-toxic masculinity

After spending an evening talking to some new friends, I have decided that I erred in my previous assertion that some of us were not on “the sexual...

14.09.2024 10

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The Old Guy: A disastrous open mic and a trip to the hospital

I had just returned from a disastrous solo open mic set when cries from Joan sent us rushing to our nearest hospital. During her four-day stay, she...

31.08.2024 3

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The Old Guy: On believing in God, and voting in November

A person shows up at my church every summer who used to attend before returning to their home in Jamaica. Now, they visit us and play tambourine...

24.08.2024 6

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The Old Guy: All about my fake heart attack

It was all going so well! Joan and I had participated in an Open Mic at West Cork Union Hall, along with our friends Dennis, Hiroko, Andy, Nanci...

17.08.2024 1

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An old guy falls for Taylor Swift and Billie Ellish | The Old Guy

When, in 1964, I began to play music and seriously listen to it as a musician, most of the artists I admired were male. There were the Beatles, The...

10.08.2024 2

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Biden, perhaps the best prez in history, was pushed out by ageism: The Old Guy

I hate to say I told you so, but, I did. Some columns ago, I predicted that Joe Biden would drop out of the race due to an unspecified illness. I...

27.07.2024 1

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