by Keith Mankin | Feb 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
Another Super Bowl. I’ve seen them all, you know, some with more interest than others. Although I can recall little about the first one in 1967 (not even called the Super Bowl then), I do remember my brother David’s incredible excitement. Somehow, he was a Green Bay...
by Keith Mankin | Feb 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
In the ancient world, the Olympics were a quadrennial time of truce. States laid down their weapons to allow the athletes to come together for open if not friendly competition. That’s the myth at least. Now during two separate Olympic cycles the bully leader of Russia...
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,...
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