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Month: May 2019

O, Canada

May 31, 2019Ed Ackerman Leave a Comment

Watching the Toronto Raptors in the NBA finals made me think of the night almost five years ago when at a hockey game in Canada the sound system malfunctioned during the singing of the national anthems. Anthems in plural because… Continue Reading →

A baseball dilemma

May 30, 2019Ed Ackerman Leave a Comment

Watching Dodgers pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu flirt with a no-hitter a couple of weeks ago (he pitched 7 1/3 innings of hitless ball against the Washington Nationals) brought back memories of witnessing my only Major League no-hitter and an age-old baseball… Continue Reading →

Feeling older every day

May 25, 2019Ed Ackerman Leave a Comment

Here’s a riddle: About 200 people are waiting at various gates at the Austin-Bergstrom airport in Austin, Texas, early one recent morning. Of all of them, only one is reading a newspaper. How old is he? Okay, I’ll tell you.… Continue Reading →

My kind of day

May 23, 2019Ed Ackerman Leave a Comment

Full disclosure: I didn’t know today, the 143rd day of the year, is a holiday until I heard about it on a morning news show. But now that I do, I am fully embracing it. Inspired by Mr. Rogers, May… Continue Reading →

69, but still a teen

May 16, 2019Ed Ackerman Leave a Comment

I’m 69 years old but still occasionally find a pimple on the end of my nose. A pimple! “What is this?” I ask myself in the mirror. “Prom day?” I long ago lost my hair, lost my waistline, lost my… Continue Reading →

Out of bad, good

May 15, 2019Ed Ackerman Leave a Comment

At first it seemed a bad decision. Then it got worse. My wife and I were out in the Back Mountain Tuesday afternoon and on our way home via West 8th Street in the Carverton area when I remembered we… Continue Reading →

Live and learn

May 10, 2019Ed Ackerman Leave a Comment

It was gratifying to see how quickly Tom Shubilla grabbed one of the cupcakes I brought to a recent meeting at the college. And enlightening to watch him eat it. I must point out that Tom, a public speaking professor,… Continue Reading →

Eating cup cakes

Red clay and coffee

May 8, 2019Ed Ackerman Leave a Comment

It’s 6 a.m. Wednesday morning and I am in my glory. Not because I am writing a little blog. True, that’s always fun, but today it is even better because I am writing a little blog with the Madrid Open… Continue Reading →

French Open, Madrid Open, Red clay of Europe

Sweet memory of a sweet lady

May 3, 2019Ed Ackerman Leave a Comment

My wife cried when she learned of the passing of Mary Graziano. Mary Kay and her sisters spent their earlier childhood playing with their South Main Street neighbors, particularly Charles and Charlene Graziano, whose parents ran the funeral home not… Continue Reading →

Salt on watermelon

They’re getting closer

May 1, 2019Ed Ackerman Leave a Comment

I’m talking blueberries. The ones in my fridge right now – well, what’s left of them after I just concluded a spree – are from North Carolina. Only a few weeks ago, they would have been from Mexico. And before… Continue Reading →

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Ed Ackerman Ed Ackerman, a consulting editor and columnist for the Greater Pittston Progress, has served the people of Greater Pittston for 48 years, starting in the newspaper field at age 17. The Pittston resident will share his thoughts in this blog and in a weekly column published in the Progress. greaterpittstonprogress.com

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