Alas, I no longer have the Fordham U. ballcap I bought about 25 years ago. I do have a story about it though. Teaching at Moravian College, I would sometimes use spring break to get a day in the city. Sometimes I’d have an agenda, but mostly I just wanted to feel the vibe onContinue reading “A Fordham Cap”
Category Archives: Memories
You just never know: Rhetoric in sending a sympathy card
There was this student — I’ll call her Sadie — in one of my classes at Moravian College in the mid-90s. She was one of those people whose body language in the first week of the semester said clearly, “I don’t want to be here.” I noticed but did not call her out. After aContinue reading “You just never know: Rhetoric in sending a sympathy card”
Alan Wingard, 1933-2023
Alan was the first surviving child of Leroy (Lee) and Dorothy (Dot) Wingard, born April 13, 1933. He was 13-1/2 years older than me. So that when I was a child, he graduated from high school (1951) and began college. I have very few memories of him from my childhood. He did live at homeContinue reading “Alan Wingard, 1933-2023”
Distant lights. Distant memories
This is the house I grew up in. My parents moved here shortly before I was born, and I lived here from then (October 1946) until I went away to college in 1964. I didn’t move away permanently until I got married (September 1969). I was in the Navy then, and took up residence inContinue reading “Distant lights. Distant memories”
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