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A Father’s Retreat

“A Father’s Retreat” in Main Line Today (June 2011). As a young boy, I never could quite understand how my father could spend hours each evening in that room. The routine went like this: After arriving home shortly before 6 p.m., our dad would join …

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bathroom reading, father's day essay, fathers, fathers and sons2 Comments on A Father’s RetreatMay 24, 2011July 4, 2019 By Michael T. Dolan

Forty feet and friendship

“Forty feet and friendship” in Main Line Today (June 2008). “Clink! Clank! Thump. Clank!” Followed by cheers, jeers or groans. “Clink! Clank! Thump. Clank!” Back and forth the sounds echoed, the metal-on-metal music of men playing horseshoes. Listening and watching from afar taught me much. …

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Recent Posts

  • A View from the Stoop
  • Move over, Johnny Appleseed
  • My Subscription-Based Life
  • “I Quit!” A School Superintendent’s Snow Day Resignation Letter
  • There Never Seems to be Enough Time
  • What the hellbender?
  • Misadventures in Golf
  • Morning Hunger
  • God Must Be An Introvert
  • A Murder in the Backyard

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