Extra-Ordinary
Chapter 12 … Stephen Morris: The Rolling Stone Interview, Part 1
(Author’s Note: On February 9, 2024- exactly 60 years after The Beatles made their U.S. debut on The Ed Sullivan Show- my sons, Jacob a...
Chapter 11 … May Day, 1970
It’s 9:17 am on March 26, 2024 in San Miguel de Allende when an old man reflects upon the moment when the die was cast.
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Chapter … 10 “Hello, Step? It’s me, Jim”
For God, for Country, and For Yale,
I’m living proof of a fairy tale.
Gettin’ smart don’t get much cooler … Go Bulldogs!
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Chapter 9 … Boola, Boola
So … I accepted with the left, and left Moses Brown as a memory.
The summer of 1966 was my summer of emancipation. There were no tes...
Chapter 8 … Accept With the Left
The year after I gave Alan Hassenfeld the fishing net, everything changed. He got a girl friend, Nancy Krause, who lived midway between...
Chapter 7 … Screwin’ Around in G
One of the transcendent words of my generation is “cool.” “Hot” has morphed from jazz to women. “Groovy” has gone the way of flower pow...
Chapter 6 The Grand Tour
My Aunt Margaret died in 1963. She was the fun-loving of the Foster girls. She married Arthur J. Feltham, and the two of them led a lif...
Eagerly Awaiting Chapter 5?
Silverbacks and Silverbelles eagerly awaiting the arrival of Chapter 5 of Extra-Ordinary were disappointed make that "distraught" .....
Chapter 5 … A Quaker Jew from Providence
After surviving the trauma of the tie, the rest of Moses Brown was smooth sailing. That is, of course, both a cliche and an exaggeratio...
Chapter 4 … The Pantheon of Small Kindnesses
My first home was the Charlesgate East Apartments in Boston’s Back Bay, almost within the shadow of Fenway Park. Whenever I take in &nb...