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A Toast and A Prayer for the New Year
The real trick to parenting might be recognizing that stupidity and bad choices are as natural as changing over to a new calendar each year.
Dec 31, 2023
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Gerry Stanek
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Christmas, Gratitude, and America
Robert Allen and Al Stillman wrote a very American song in 1954, and “Home for the Holidays” is grounded in the trips that get underway in the song’s…
Dec 12, 2023
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September 2023
New Fiction: Synchronicity
His narrow ratface didn’t put me in a courteous mood.
Sep 30, 2023
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December 2022
A Christmas Soundtrack
What’s most interesting about Christmas memories to me is that when they appear, a master file seems to open up and reams of memory tend to stream…
Dec 5, 2022
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November 2022
Ridgetops
That world, the place I inhabited as a child, is gone. Not physically, of course, but it is the kind of world that has become obsolete.
Nov 6, 2022
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Gerry Stanek
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October 2022
Dreamscapes and Hollow Victories
Here in the big time, I needed to look a little more rock and roll, and I needed to know my place as a sideman for someone else’s dream.
Oct 28, 2022
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The Standard Shift
Driving lessons aren't always about driving.
Oct 13, 2022
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June 2022
Trinkets
There’s profound magic in the archaic possibility of missing someone and having to remember them by sending a carefully chosen item, no matter how…
Jun 30, 2022
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April 2022
Time, Joy, Work
There are some things you can't get with a diploma.
Apr 9, 2022
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Gerry Stanek
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November 2021
Dad Talks
Lessons of Thanksgiving and fatherhood.
Nov 24, 2021
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September 2021
The Soap and the Corn
I've never liked Halloween, and maybe the reasons run deep.
Sep 30, 2021
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A Not-So-Academic Theory on The Fab Four
No one in history has had more fun than The Beatles.
Sep 17, 2021
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