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No return to normal

By Ken / April 26, 2021 /

As I sat down to get my first vaccination, gut-churning guitar chords and Ozzy Osbourne’s nasal rant blasted a crowded former showroom floor. Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man.” Classic. Spine-crushing. And somehow so apropos. “Has he lost his mind? Can he see or is he blind?” Gone are the days when we don’t see each other’s…

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Excerpts and Empathy

By Ken / October 12, 2017 /

Growing up, I was an avid breakfast reader of the Globe’s sports section, fond of the “Thoughts While Shaving” column. In his regular piece, sportswriter Ernie Roberts offered tidbits of critiques and impressions regarding players on the doomed Red Sox and Pats, or the vaunted Celtics and Bruins. My post today adopts some of that…

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This 9/11, remember cohesion

By Ken / September 9, 2016 / Comments Off on This 9/11, remember cohesion

Jay Winuk has a message for all of us this weekend. Unity. Recognize it. Pause from the negative. Restore it. Winuk, who lives in Mahopac, N.Y., will again remember his brother, Glenn J. Winuk, a volunteer firefighter who died while doing triage in the South Tower at the World Trade Center. He does this in…

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What is resilience made of?

By Ken / April 16, 2014 /

Across the home of the Bean, if not much of the country, the Boston Marathon bombings’ anniversary sparked much reflection on the responses of many people. Yes, a showing of the “strong” among bystanders and many first responders — and something else, perhaps a little less visible than those repeated images, but no less real.…

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