by Keith Mankin | Jan 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
A huge loss recently was the singer Meat Loaf. His music was entwined with my adolescence. He was the soundtrack and the aspiration of my younger self.The album Bat Out of Hell came out in 1977, an explosive debut for the rising star. I don’t know how many of...
by Keith Mankin | Jan 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
The adage goes, “Time is Money.” As with many an old saw, this is one of my most pet of peeves. I don’t dispute that time is valuable. It is a non-renewable resource, the only one that all humans have in their personal possession. Time is also an unknowable and...
by Keith Mankin | Jan 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Yesterday, I bit off more than I could chew. I tried to write an essay about Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birth anniversary and got weighed down in awkward description. My anger got the better of me in a way that Dr. King would not have accepted. There is too much...
by Keith Mankin | Jan 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
For a Patriots fan, the season crashed to an end yesterday in a dismal drubbing by arch-rival Buffalo. I have no problem with the Bills being is ascendency for a while. I have always liked them as a team, lamenting their four straight Super Bowls with no victories,...
by Keith Mankin | Jan 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
I am in a continuous battle with my teeth. When I was young, there was a Mankin legend that my teeth were soft because my mother used Erythromycin during pregnancy. Or perhaps it was her smoking. But I will take full responsibility. Most certainly, it was my...
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