Last evening, I attended a forum of some twenty-five candidates for election to our city council. In between two of the sessions, I went out of the auditorium into the corridor to see friends and acquaintances. To my surprise, one of those I encountered was a college classmate and near neighbor, Martin Karplus.
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Calls
Frequent phone calls, frequent mailings, occasional front porch visits – – these are the way we figure in the current race for the 5h Congressional District seat. Our former congressman, Ed Markey, served my part of town for only a few months, before going on to a senate seat.
Experiment
Yesterday, October 1, marked the first time I have composed a talk by speaking instead of by writing. To do so I used a new program called Dragon dictate for the Mac, surprising me by spelling virtually all my words correctly.
Carlos Concerned
Several days ago I received the following email:
“Congratulations on your birthday. You happen to be my senior- by 3 months.
Are you and your equally aged brethren in the U.S. as concerned as I am about the goings on in the world? What about the young?
Rising Bill
Come tomorrow, September 10, 2013, a native of my city of Cambridge is likely to be elected mayor of America’s largest city, New York. Bill De Blasio is also a graduate of our public high school, Cambridge Rindge and Latin, in the class of 1979.
My 85th
My 85th birthday on the nineteenth day of August would seem a much older age level to me were it not for my friend Dan. As an earlier blog noted, he was 101 on the fourth day of this month. Somehow, his being so much older than I reduces my feel of personal antiquity.
Beyond Bye-Bye
He described himself as “a fat, bald guy who looked unkempt even in a freshly pressed suit and a Brooks Brothers shirt.”
That was Jack Germond whose obit I read in today’s Times. This memorable newspaperman was born the same year as I – 1928. Seeing an age peer may have been one of the draws that brought me to watch Jack on “The McLaughlin Group.”