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Author Archives: Leprechuan
The Changing Landscape
The reconstruction of one of the last buildings in the area of the original World Trade Center is almost complete. After more than two decades, the site of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was rebuilt and consecrated on July … Continue reading
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Numbers And Words On The Screen
There are numbers etched in my mind and heart from the tragic morning of 9/11. – 2,977 lives lost – 343 bravest of the brave – 23 of New York and New Jersey’s finest. Most of these numbers are well-known, … Continue reading
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As the bird flies, as the fish swims.
Birds fly all over Manhattan; you cannot miss them. They leave droppings all over the place: on cars, statues, people. You get the idea. Yet, on that beautiful Tuesday morning, a bird an innocent bird, flying in lower Manhattan … Continue reading
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Lights on, lights off and the power that goes with it
Photo © 2010 Michael P. Judge. Used by permission. All Rights Reserved. I listen to the radio on my iPhone, mostly Q104.3 out of New York City. It is a classic rock station with a stunning morning man, Jim Kerr, … Continue reading
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Not dead yet.
So this is how it ends. About 8 years ago, I had an Electromyography link, EMG, done after being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. The test results stated that I would lose the use of both legs, the right one … Continue reading
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A New Day
Dawn will rise again as it has for decades. People get up and go to work or school. Children will be born, and adults will take their final breaths. As rebuilding continues throughout Lower Manhattan – some not scheduled to … Continue reading
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The Diminishing Of Time And Of Air.
As the anniversary approaches, I think of what has diminished in the time since that Beautiful Tuesday Morning. It is the continuous loss of life that goes on now. When the gray plume of ash surrounded lower Manhattan carrying carcinogens, … Continue reading
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The difference between then and now.
Another day, another morning with brisk sunshine has begun, just as it had sixteen years ago. I have moved seven times in the last sixteen years, it’s as if I were a nomad, looking and searching for what I would … Continue reading
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Within the dead of winter.
It’s the dead of winter and yet all I want is for the baseball season to start. I’m going through baseball withdrawal. Its clear cut and unmistakable, it begins with the final out of the World Series, and doesn’t end … Continue reading
15. 31. 343. 2,977
The Mets were in a penned hunt that like they are this year, there were in Pittsburgh for a series when it happened, and yet, it doesn’t seem like fifteen years that the New York skyline was darken by hate, … Continue reading
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Not in this building, not on this day.
On February 2nd, I started a new job in Utica New York. The position is at the department of motor vehicles in the state building. The building itself is a good forty year old and has several state agencies and … Continue reading
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You can say goodbye now.
Finally, a day short of 2 years in Richmond Virginia, I’ll be leaving the area. I’ve been enrolled in a training program that will take place in Little Rock Arkansas. The evaluation would take a month with the training itself … Continue reading
Define normal.
I was out Monday night and hanging with some people in Richmond. We were discussing the various topics of the day, the begging of the football season, the ending of the baseball season, Ray Rice and the likelihood of his … Continue reading
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Moving on up, over there, and why can’t have another piece of pizza?
Well, this has been interesting month. However, I saw this coming in June. I asked my boss what would happen if no federal budget in place on October 1, how badly would it affect our team? As a contract management … Continue reading
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O Canada!
I finally saw “Argo” Saturday night on HBO, and remember the true events like it was yesterday. What blew me away was that our friends to the North, Canada, gave refuge to six embassy employees without question. But this isn’t … Continue reading
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I’ll take the cheesesteak please.
After over a year of working on the online course, I applied to the Susquehanna Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired for a position as a Closeout Contract Specialist. There had been plans to add people to their Philadelphia … Continue reading
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Finally, it happened.
I’ve been out of work since January 26, 2007, when I moved from Brooklyn to live with my current wife in Florida.It took a long time to learn some of the area, but not enough to be able to get … Continue reading
I wish I could forget it. . .
I wish I could forget it. After all this time, eleven years on, I wish I could forget that Beautiful Tuesday Morning, but I’ll never be able to, it’s seared into my heart and mind like a like a bad, … Continue reading
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Working overtime?
In early June, I made a phone cell and get an email and this started a process, one that is still ongoing, but now it appears to be moving faster. Thankfully it concerns a full time job near the northeast. … Continue reading
“Hotter than James Brown hot”
The ac was dying a slow death, and had been for as long as I’ve been here, almost 6 years. It started on Mother’s Day morning; all I did was open the master bedroom closet to get a shirt, a … Continue reading
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Tagged air, conditioning, Daredevil, heart, Leprechuan, rant
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What a nerve!
Early November I started to notice a tingling, burning sensation in my right hand along with a similar, but not a noticeable effect, in my left hand. Ice didn’t offer much help in giving me any relief. After my physical … Continue reading
Take only as directed.
When did it become in vogue to dismantle and demoralize woman? Is this were we as a nation are heading? This is not the path I want this country to be on. No woman should be disparaged for wanting access … Continue reading
Your death is a great career move!
Whitney Houston died on February 11, 2012, yet as shocking as is, it will be a great career move. The sales of her recordings will in cream dramatically, which will be seen as a great career move. She’ll be remembered … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann, death, Hpuston, Karol, Kealter, New York City, Whitney
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Time heals all wounds or do we forget?
“The reason we were attacked, the reason these people are dead, these people are missing and dead … They weren’t doing anything wrong, they were living their lives, they were going to work, they were traveling, they were doing what … Continue reading
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Breathe deep the gathering gloom, and try not to cough.
I’ve been having breathing concerns for some time now. With my last visit to my regular physician, I was referred to a pulmonary physician. I called and made the appointment for tomorrow August 24. I downloaded the electronic form, filled … Continue reading
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Tagged Daredevil, Doctor, Leprechuan, pulmonary, rant, sccrew up
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Soneone turn on the debt ceiling fan!
There is a reason it’s called entitlement programs. Why? Because those people who have paid into it, are entitled to their money. Yet, there are people in the Beltway that think that these people aren’t entitled to their money. These … Continue reading
The destruction of the United States of America from within.
This country is being destroyed, not by Republicans, nor Democrats, but by narrow minded people who disregard federal and state laws to suite their own sense of self-worth, and these people should be called Nazi’s, as they act like one. … Continue reading
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Tagged Daredevil, Home Owners Associations, Leprechuan, Medal Of Honor, Nazi's
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Coda’s.
There have been some losses over the weekend. Most notable was the loss of Clarence Clemons, the larger than life saxophonist of the E Street Band. Not only was a member of the band, he worked with many other artists … Continue reading
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Tagged Clarence Clemons, Daredevil, laptop, Leprechuan, Mietek Pempoer, peace, suffering, WWII
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He’s right up there in “The Balcony.”
My parents were avid readers, when I was a kid growing up in New York; we got the New York Daily News, sometimes the New York Times and after the 1963 newspaper strike, the Herald-Tribune before that paper ceased publication … Continue reading