Category Archives: Looking Back

Newlywed

Posted on July 12, 2009 by Monkling

This afternoon we had a little trip down memory lane, a flashback to when we were first married. For the first 9 months of our marriage, we lived in a 1 bedroom apartment 20 minutes west of where we live … Continue reading →

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Voices

Posted on August 3, 2008 by Monkling

No, I’m not hearing voices! Yes, I do know that’s the first thing you thought of. When I was talking in a prior post about not understanding the switchboard person whenever I call Steve up in Assisi, Katy said he … Continue reading →

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Belmont Stakes

Posted on June 7, 2008 by Monkling

Between the Belmont Stakes going off in a bit and Katie getting married tomorrow, I’m having a flashback. 24 years ago, I was at the Belmont Stakes. Of course I’m looking at the crowds there today, & I’m still sweating … Continue reading →

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Hall & Oates

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Monkling

Kim did one of those MeMe things and mentioned how she saw every single Hall & Oates concert. (Yeah, you have to scroll all the way down before you see that. ‘Someone’ can get very verbose, unlike me.) Then she … Continue reading →

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30th Birthday Dinner

Posted on August 16, 2007 by Monkling

On Tues. night when we were at the nursing home, we were discussing an incident that happened over 20 years ago. I have decided it needs to live on and so I am posting the story here. One evening on … Continue reading →

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Monsters

Posted on July 7, 2007 by Monkling

Dahl Court in Brooklyn wasn’t, in my opinion, the most idealistic of places to grow up but it certainly was never boring. Our house was the very last one on the dead end street so unlike most of the houses … Continue reading →

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Fire Up The Grill

Posted on May 27, 2007 by Monkling

About 2 months after Frank & I started dating, he invited me over to his family’s house for a barbecue. His story was, this was a 4th of July barbecue. He left out the part about it also being a … Continue reading →

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1,001 Excuses

Posted on April 24, 2007 by Monkling

I came across an old journal of mine and found something in it that is just way too funny to keep to myself. For almost 4 years, in the late 1970s/early 1980s I worked for a doctor on the Upper … Continue reading →

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Time Travel is Out

Posted on March 14, 2007 by Monkling

A whole lot of people are going to be disappointed to read the article I just saw on foxnews.com saying that you can’t travel back in time. I’m surprised it took the physicists this long to figure that one out. … Continue reading →

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