Author: Rich Marin

Love

The Calm of the Cruise

By Rich Marin | by Rich Marin

The Calm of the Cruise In the Fall of 1963, when the world was reeling from the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a little girl in kindergarten in the Miami Elementary School in Wabash, Indiana was scheduled for afternoon nap time.  When her teacher wondered why she had not come back to her mat after her excused visit to the Girls’ Room, she went to the bathroom to find her.  When she opened the door,…

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Retirement

The Lone Ranger Gets a Black Eye

By Rich Marin | by Rich Marin

The Lone Ranger Gets a Black Eye Dave had been a child of the Wonder Years, but he suffered from cartoon-interruptus, which is to say that his mother had dragged him overseas to a remote tropical valley in Costa Rica just as he was getting a taste for Saturday morning TV.   For our younger readers, let me set this stage a bit more clearly.  The year was 1959 and Dave was five years old. …

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