Tag: reminiscing
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Dads, Sports, and Awe
I went to the driving range the other day with my son and son-in-law. I was not there to work on my golf game. There’s no point in trying to resurrect that which has been long buried. But it was fun to hang out with the boys on a beautiful summer day. I was sitting…
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40 Years Ago – Star Wars at Penn Theater
Recently, Star Wars celebrated its 40th year anniversary of its original theatrical release in 1977. I remember it well. I was nine years old and had seen an extremely low number of movies in my lifetime up to that point. Maybe two. One for sure. My family didn’t go to movies. We were not the…
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Twenty Shows: A Ten Year Lookback
Go back eleven years and drama wasn’t even in my radar. It may not have been in my galaxy, and if it was, it certainly wasn’t connected with original drama. Now, in 2017, looking backward I see that I have written (or co-written) and produced 19 original, full-length dramatic productions in the past ten years.…
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A Season of Change, A Season of Craziness
So much is going on in my life this week that I think I need to write it all down just to keep track of it all. On the homefront: May 13 marks my 26th wedding anniversary. Planning on doing something special tomorrow evening to celebrate. On the author front: May 15 marks the end…
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I used to eat out only once a year.
In my last post, I connected my past to the silly memories of McDonald’s restaurants throughout the course of my life. Those nostalgic Big Mac memories made me think of another fast-food chain which I loved for a very special reason. It’s name was Winky’s, and I ate there once a year. Here’s the story:…
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19 Still Felt Right
I was typing away, submitting a book promotion on a certain website where they asked me to enter the year. My fingers automatically started typing ’19’, and I stopped to ponder what that meant. A year hasn’t started with ’19’ for fifteen years. What in the world is going on? What does that mean when…
Author Mark W Sasse 