Jeff and I got Mao as an 8-week-old kitten in the fall of 1965. We had just gotten married the month before, and of course, we had to have a cat right away. Why a Siamese? I don’t know. Karma… Read More ›
memories
MEMORIES OF SIDNEY POITIER – GARRY ARMSTRONG
When Sidney Poitier was shooting For the Love of Ivy in New York city — about 1968 when the movie would be opening — he had a nice little romance with Abby Lincoln in the title role. That movie was… Read More ›
THE KOTEL
My favorite place in Jerusalem was the Western Wall, sometimes incorrectly called the “Wailing Wall.” In Hebrew, it’s Kotel — it rhymes with motel. I used to go to the Kotel to leave messages for God. We all believed messages left there… Read More ›
FUTURE NOSTALGIA -MAINE 1972
FUTURE NOSTALGIA I don’t have a lot of old photos. Many of them never made it back from Israel and others went to my brother. When he passed, I suspect the old family photos vanished. They are probably in a… Read More ›
DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? – RICH PASCHALL
One Hit Wonders, 1971 edition, by Rich Paschall It’s another Golden Anniversary and we are here at the SERENDIPITY dance hall and tea room to bring you another top ten list of songs you may have forgotten, or perhaps never… Read More ›
BE CAREFUL, DAD
A Father and Son story, by Rich Paschall The knocking on the door was expected. Jack got up, shuffled across the room, and opened the door for his neighbor. “Well, old-timer, I hope you have the coffee ready,” the guest… Read More ›
FLAG DAY: TO MOM ON HER 104th BIRTHDAY
Today is “Flag Day,” but here, it is much more. It’s my Mom’s birthday. Esther Letticia Holder Armstrong left us 14 years ago. But for me and my family, she’s very much alive in spirit and 104 years young. They… Read More ›
HEMINGWAY: THE MAN AND THE LEGEND
Hemingway was my first literary hero. He wrote the way people talked. Brief, blunt, and brave. I consumed his novels as a teenager the way I would finish off a pizza. I couldn’t put it down. “The Sun Also Rises”… Read More ›
LIBERATION: A MUSICAL THAT ALMOST WAS – RICH PASCHALL
“Just imagine how awful we’d feel,” I told Betty one day, “if we got to the end of our lives and never produced our play. Especially if we really could have. We’d always regret it.” That’s how I pushed Betty to… Read More ›
IT’S SPRING TOMORROW: THE CHANGING SEASONS, FEBRUARY 2021
The Changing Seasons, February 2021 Astronomical spring begins (here) March 20th but meteorological spring starts tomorrow. I’m not sure what the difference is, but I will take spring any way I can get it. I will also get my first vaccination… Read More ›
SHARING MY WORLD – IT’S ALL ABOUT FRUSTRATION
SHARING MY WORLD — 1/26/2021 I’m not writing. I’m taking a vacation. Except I am writing because I’m so mad at my state’s government, I want to go and bang a couple of their heads together. One of them has… Read More ›
GARRY SHARES HIS WORLD TOO
Share Your World 12-17-2020 News events WERE my world for more than 40 years, 31 years at Channel 7 in Boston, 3 years at ABC Network (New York), and 2 years in Hartford, Connecticut when I was making the jump… Read More ›
Serendipity Seeking Intelligent Life on Earth 