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About Ken Greenman

Married and Happy. Retired and busy. Living in NC. 71 and counting. December 12, 2025 and it's 77! ... I would love some written comments, critiques, adulation or kind suggestions.... If you have the time and or inclination, please feel free! Not in fear but by faith. We will see. See you later! If you ever want to talk for real, email me and I will send you my cell number.... I am enjoying this!

1362 …at 1:28 PM!!! 07-14-26

Holy Mackerel! It’s 1:28 PM on the kitchen clock and I’ve only just finished my bowl of Cheerios mixed with a garnish of grains and nuts and covered with sliced bananas and blueberries , strawberries, and floating in 2% fat-and-Lactose-free-milk … Continue reading

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1361 WHAT EITHER SPOUSE SHOULD LEARN TO SAY 07-13-26

“Honey! You’d be such an easy guy to be married to, if only you were!” And he’d know what was coming ’cause he’d just done some…thing exactly the way he likes to do any…thing but not exactly the way…she likes … Continue reading

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1360 THE ARTISTRY OF MIKE FAGAN 07-09-26

Grandpa Mike was one tough ol’ Irishman, who dwelled in the smelly, dank cabin of the MIC-EDDIE, a tub of a sail boat he and his old friend, Eddie O’Malley (who died before their boat was launched) built together. Grandpa … Continue reading

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1359 A BOTTLE FOR MEMORIES 07-05-26

“Yoo-Hoo! Anybody home?” yelled our next door neighbor, Teresa Marino, Mother of my buddies Pasquali (the Second), Georgio and Johnny. She’d poke her head in our opened front door… Nobody locked doors back then. That would come a few years … Continue reading

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1358 A POEM IN DEFENSE OF SABBATH 07-04-26

Written in response to a “kool-aid” crack made by an old theologian buddy who condemns my continued belief in- and my stubborn adherence too- the Forth Commandment and against its -(somehow, since it’s “just ceremonial…”)- elimination at the Cross of … Continue reading

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1357 AT 77 AND ONE HALF 06-25-26

“Didn’t you use (d) to be… a member here back when….?” Yep! I heard that when I dropped by to visit the old fitness club to say hello to the owner. Mike Riley, a good friend and training buddy. Where … Continue reading

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1356 REMIND ME TO REMEMBER 06-19-26

Remind me to remember not to die before I’m dead. To suckle every nipple. To fondle every breast. To grasp every ass that’s offered and press it firm against the head. And come! And come again! And come again! To … Continue reading

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1355 WHAT TO REMEMBER WHEN I DIED 06-18-26

Let me remind you to remember what I looked like when I died and to tell me when we meet for coffee in that Cafe’ on the Other Side. Was there the smile on my face of a man, contented, … Continue reading

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1354 THAT VIEW! 06-09-26

An emerald-green-grass-fairway. And high on its sides and above, a deep-blue-North Carolina sky with a herd of white, puffy, buffalo drifting by, stretches out before my eye through the picture windows walling my Senior-Living-Communities indoor swimming pool as I force … Continue reading

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1353 AN OBITURARY FOR A CEO 06-05-26

It really don’t matter, the money you’ll earn. Nor the companies you’ll build from scratch, to turn. What matters is what your children will say, on the day after you die. It’s your choice to choose. To win or to … Continue reading

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