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Here Comes Johnny Yen Again...: January 2013

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Sunday, January 27, 2013. I've told both of my kids that the friends they make in college will end up being the strongest one of their lives. I can tell that my son, in his freshman year of college, is beginning to understand this. That would make life even richer. In my youthful naivete and stupidity, I thought that life really would be over after 30. I had no idea that it was only beginning then. In the long haul, my life's been rich and fascinating, and continues to be. Links to this post. Things are ...

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Here Comes Johnny Yen Again...: A Boy's Dream

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Tuesday, August 05, 2014. Yeah, I was in the show. I was in the show for 21 days once - the 21 greatest days of my life. You know, you never handle your luggage in the show, somebody else carries your bags. It was great. You hit white balls for batting practice, the ballparks are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains.". Crash" Davis, "Bull Durham". I remember, to this day, nearly 43 years later, so much about the game. Juan Pizzaro pitched for ...

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Here Comes Johnny Yen Again...: October 2013

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Wednesday, October 16, 2013. I am, obviously, a person who doesn't like loose ends. I am one who keeps friendships up over years, decades. My three closest friends are people I met over 30 years ago. I used to write a lot of letters. Now Facebook and cheap long distance helps make up for the fact that I don't have as much time and energy to write letters. My unease with loose ends does have its downside. Namely, loose ends. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Here Comes Johnny Yen Again.

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Here Comes Johnny Yen Again...: August 2013

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Monday, August 19, 2013. The Snows of Kilamanjaro. When I was a freshman in college, in 1979, I had to read Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilamanjaro" for an English class. To be honest, the book made no impact with me. The random flow of the narrator's memories as he dies didn't register with me. A few months ago, I was revisiting the story in my head, and realized that I now get, at the age of 52, what I didn't get when I was 18. I ended up splitting with his mother, but shared custody of him. I was ma...

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Here Comes Johnny Yen Again...: Johnny Yen's One-Hit Wonders: "Master Jack," By Four Jacks and a Jill

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Thursday, July 11, 2013. Johnny Yen's One-Hit Wonders: "Master Jack," By Four Jacks and a Jill. Four Jacks and a Jill were a South African folk group who had had a hit in their native land. They hit the US Top Forty with their song "Master Jack" in 1968, reaching #18 on the Billboard Hot 100, and number 3 on the Adult Contemporary chart. It was an international. Smash, hitting the charts in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and hit #1 in South Africa . Quote Of the Week.

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Here Comes Johnny Yen Again...: The Picky Ones At the Buffet

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Tuesday, August 06, 2013. The Picky Ones At the Buffet. Later, I thought about how funny it was that we'd have such a good time in a hotel room watching ships and a bridge. I thought about our marriage, relationships in general and remembered an experience I had a couple of lifetimes ago. I took Larry's van, with the food and a couple of other employees, out to a lakefront park, where we set up and awaited the riders. Soon, they arrived, and I watched a really interesting thing unfold. I get told that a ...

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Here Comes Johnny Yen Again...: Little Miracles

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Tuesday, October 07, 2014. In 1998, I had just finished two things: my elementary education teaching certificate and an ugly custody fight with an ex-girlfriend over my son. Neither were cheap. My ex and I had fought to a bitter standstill. We shared custody, but as is the custom in the state I live in, I ended up paying child support. Hell yeah. I was getting evicted from the apartment my son and I lived in. It wasn't necessarily the worst thing. I'd picked the apartment in a hurry after the...A day or ...

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Here Comes Johnny Yen Again...: July 2014

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Tuesday, July 22, 2014. This weekend, my wife, my son and I went up to a reunion that my wife's family has every three years. At some point during the drive back, my son asked me about this blog, pointing out I hadn't written in it in a while. Truth is that I had been planning for the last couple of weeks to resume posting. I missed it. I was fortunate to get into the RN program of one of the Chicago City Colleges. Not only did it have a great reputation, it was relatively cheap. I finished nursing schoo...

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Here Comes Johnny Yen Again...: Loose Ends

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Wednesday, October 16, 2013. I am, obviously, a person who doesn't like loose ends. I am one who keeps friendships up over years, decades. My three closest friends are people I met over 30 years ago. I used to write a lot of letters. Now Facebook and cheap long distance helps make up for the fact that I don't have as much time and energy to write letters. My unease with loose ends does have its downside. Namely, loose ends. Great post Johnny Yen. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Quote Of the Week.