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Category: Everyday Life

Is it Bad Karma or Bad Luck?

pdisco23 May 27, 2022May 27, 2022

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 18 total views I’m not sure why these things seem to always happen to me. Maybe I was a historical time-waster in a previous life, having no regard for my fellow

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Getting Struck by Lightning, Again

pdisco23 April 15, 2022April 15, 2022

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 143 total views Admit it. You don’t spend money on scratch-off tickets expecting to win the jackpot. It’s more for the fun of it than actually winning. Adorning a birthday present

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Embracing 65 and All Its Glory

pdisco23 March 23, 2022March 23, 2022

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 281 total views One of my earliest Massapequa Observer columns from 2017 broached a very personal subject for me. After writing a few columns about life in Massapequa, my editor liked them so

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Negotiating the Grandchild Scam

pdisco23 December 28, 2021January 15, 2022

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 431 total views It’s one of the oldest scams in the book. A predator calls an older adult pretending to be their grandchild. They’ve been arrested and need money immediately or

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I’m Still a Man, Right?

pdisco23 December 23, 2021April 8, 2022

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 494 total views,  1 views today I’m going to tell you something, but you have to promise not to tell anyone, OK? I went for a pedicure. There, I said it. I

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Downsizing the Christmas Tree

pdisco23 December 22, 2021December 22, 2021

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 405 total views I have very few requests in life that are truly important to me. But setting up our Christmas tree and having the kids (and their significant others) join

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Back to the Movies

pdisco23 December 1, 2021December 8, 2021

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 105 total views On Saturday night, Jan. 4, 2020, my wife and I took in the new Adam Sandler movie, Uncut Gems, at the Cinema De Lux in Farmingdale. It was a dark

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Opting In or Out – That is the Question

pdisco23 November 24, 2021December 8, 2021

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 385 total views A friend of mine, let’s call him Steve, has illegally gotten pot ever since he was a kid. Now in his sixties, there’s a good possibility that he

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A Lifetime of Confusion Over Time Change

pdisco23 November 18, 2021December 8, 2021

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 276 total views,  1 views today George and Kathy are celebrating their 35th Anniversary in November. Like most couples, they’ve had their ups and downs. But through it all, their love for

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In a New York Minute

pdisco23 November 11, 2021

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 483 total views They started arriving in the mail a few weeks ago. At first, just one or two in a week. Then it was a few in a single day.

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