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Camping? Camping!
Yes, it’s another of those spammy scammy text exchanges. Lately they haven’t been playing along with my improvs very well, but this one tried a bit more than most. I really thought my first comment regarding a visible erection might put them off but it did not. In the end I stopped the conversation with…
York, PA Businesses (6)
We continue to move further out in time and space (from my original neighborhood) as I explore memories of more York businesses. This time: the Paperback Trade. I’m not sure how I first heard of it. It was located in a large room of a school building converted into stores, so it had probably been…
Think About The Future
We all think about the future. At least we say we do. But I’m not sure we really accept how time unfolds for us. I knew someone who had 5- and 10-year plans for her career, and I can tell you they didn’t work out. (Hint: if you make plans for the future, do things…
Wrong Number? No!
I actually missed her second text that claimed it was a “wrong number,” since I was determined to keep on going with the original premise—that I was Aunt Mary. But my repetition did get her to stop.
Repeat the Rinse
This is a new one. I’ve gotten it four times now. The first two came days apart but these showed up in my messages list one above the other. Talk about using a template! And being vague…
Euripides as a Democratic Socialist
I wondered if one might think of the Ancient Greek playwright, who had definite negative thoughts about the gods and certain ideas about how a society should be run, could be considered a democratic socialist. So I asked perplexity.ai to write an essay on the topic. Here it is. Though the term *democratic socialist* belongs…
York, PA Businesses (5)
As I continue the march around local businesses, I feel the need to range a bit farther past the square and out Market Street. Around the corner from the library was a travel agency. I never ventured in, but I was perennially amused by their window display that featured a mustached man about three feet…
York, PA Businesses (4)
On the corner of George and South streets, diagonally from Babe’s newsstand, sat Spangler’s Drug Store. Owned by a husband and wife, they were the local version of what would become chains such as Walgreen’s and CVS. I would occasionally buy film for my cameras there but have no real recollections of the place, unless…
York, PA Businesses (3)
Fischer’s Meat Market was one of those local places you could walk to for all of your groceries, preventing that area of York, PA from being a food desert—a term that wouldn’t surface for years and something we needn’t have worried about in the prosperous 1960s. The market had canned foods, veggies, and of course…
York, PA Businesses (2)
My reminiscences of businesses in the immediate area where I grew up in York, PA continues. There were two very close newsstands: Babe’s (at the corner of George and South Streets) and Carl’s (a few blocks away on George Street). Babe’s had a huge selection of comic books around and past the pinball machine. This…
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