Tag: Friends
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Memento Mori
This past Saturday (July 26, 2025), I took a trip with a friend to Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, to see the sites of the Battles of Lexington and Concord that took place in late April 1775. My friend lives in eastern Connecticut. I live near Bridgeport, so the drive for me to his place was…
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Diary – July 15
On Saturday afternoon, my wife and I went to a memorial service for her longtime friend’s dad. He died in May after a brief illness. My wife and her friend go back over forty years, to the early 1980s. None of us can believe that so much time has passed. That decade seems like yesterday,…
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Goodbye Old Friend
Well, an event happened today that I was hoping would never occur. I ended a friendship over politics. Actually, that’s a very over-generalized statement. I had to cut the person off (“cancel” in today’s lingo) because this person would send me several emails a month (he doesn’t use social media) expressing his views on the…
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Old Friends
One of things we can appreciate as we get older are those few friends who have been with us throughout the years. A good friendship is like a good wine; it ages over time. Like aging wine, friendships have peaks and valleys, ups and downs, over the years. But through it all you are together.…