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70 Charlton Street
| By: Paul S. Cilwa | Occurred: 3/11/2019 Posted: 7/2/2024 |
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| Topics: #Zach | |||
| My eldest grandson has become a professional filemmaker. | |||
My eldest grandson, Zachary, is currently in New York City, attending a prestigious music school there. He's already been paid to compose music for a documentary, so technically he is a professional. And he was contacted by a Manhattan real estate agent who requested Zach do a video for an expensive piece of real estate that had just come up for sale, for $500.
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The Castle on Harmony Place
| By: Paul S. Cilwa | Occurred: 1/23/2020 Posted: 7/2/2024 |
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| Topics: #Jenny | |||
| The castle my daughter's family lived in. | |||
My daughter Jenny, her husband Jimmy, and their little ones Dominic and Gianna moved into a castle on Harmony Lane in Chandler. It turned out to be bigger than they wanted, so they asked me to take real-estate style photos of the place.
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Dating Mary
| By: Paul S. Cilwa | Occurred: 6/20/1969 Posted: 7/2/2024 |
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| Topics: #Autobiography | |||
| Dating in St Augustine in 1969. | |||
Mary Steinberg, whom I married a few years later, and I, graduated high school together and we dated most of the summer after. Here are some of the things we did.
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Global Warning
| By: Paul S. Cilwa | Occurred: 6/30/2024 |
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| Topics: #GishGallop #OilCrisis #AcidRain #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming | |||
| The Gish Gallop can also apply to memes. | |||
Hopefully a lot of us have figured out that a meme doesn't necessarily equal truth. After all, they're usually anonymous, and never include any kind of citation. Sadly, there are so many people these days who either can't tell a truth from a lie, or celebrate the lies. (I'm talking to you, supporters of the orange shitstain who recently won a debate, according to the media, by not uttering a single true statement.) But a high school friend posted the above meme on Facebook today, minus the disclaimer. And I feel motivated to answer each one of these lies.
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Text Slaves
| By: Paul S. Cilwa | Posted: 6/29/2024 |
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| Topics: #Slavery #HumanTrafficking #Scams | |||
| If you've ever gotten a text message seemingly to someone else, you've been contacted by a slave. | |||
Alex, where are you? I've got the tickets. If your name isn't Alex, and you've gotten this text message on your phone, isn't your first impulse to let the person know they've got the wrong number? After, all, it sounds important. But if you do, you are not talking to anyone in any kind of line other than that of a phone bank. And that person is an enslaved victim of human trafficking, probably in the far east.
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Just Say No To Oak Street Health
| By: Paul S. Cilwa | Occurred: 6/26/2024 |
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| Topics: #Autobiography | |||
| If I were bleeding from the eyes and Oak Street Health was the only doctor left in the world, I would stay home and get better care. | |||
I need a hip replacement, and I've waited for months to be scheduled for one. Last week I learned it would be tomorrow! —as long as I could get my pre-operative pass from my primary care physical. You'd think this would be the easy part. But it turns out my PCP, who works for Oak Street Health, just somehow wasn't capable of getting this done. And so my hard-to-get surgery date has been canceled.
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Officer Dominic
| By: Paul S. Cilwa | Occurred: 11/25/2019 Posted: 6/22/2024 |
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| Topics: #Dominic | |||
| My grandson has decided on his future career. | |||
Last year Dominic wanted to be Spider-Man. Or maybe not; he was only two and perhaps he only wanted a spider as a pet. In any case, he now has a new goal, to be a police officer. So I came over to see him in his new uniform.
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Super Gianna
| By: Paul S. Cilwa | Occurred: 11/25/2019 Posted: 6/22/2024 |
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| Topics: #Gianna | |||
| My granddaughter has decided, instead of being a puppy or a princess, to be a superhero. | |||
Since, among other things, Gianna would like to be a superhero (that's in addition to a princess, and a puppy), I decided to make her a canvas print of her as one. She chose the name Starshine. I'll present it to her as a Christmas gift.
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Car Camping at 73
| By: Paul S. Cilwa | Occurred: 6/12/2024 |
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| Topics: #GrandCanyon #Photography | |||
| It's been too long since I've seen the spires. | |||
I'm 73, as I keep having to remind myself, and I'm scheduled to have a hip replacement in a couple weeks. So who knows when I'll have another change to visit Grand Canyon? And so, here I am, planning to take photos at midday, sunset, and night. And, by the way, all the following photos were taken by me, with my Samsung Galaxy 23 cell phone. I italicize that because I am still so amazed at the unexpected direction photography has taken in my lifetime.
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Ankh You Very Much
| By: Paul S. Cilwa | Occurred: 4/24/2024 Posted: 6/4/2024 |
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| Topics: #History #Egypt #Ankh #Cross #Symbols | |||
| My daughter's gift from Egypt gets me wondering about the history of the symbol. | |||
So my daughter, Karen, always the adventurous type, decided to make a trip to Egypt with her friend, Dawn. This is an artist's rendition (okay, AI's rendition).
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