Author: mtc9393

My friend Spike O’Cool, who always reminds me that the O’Cool’s were kings in Ireland, called after he had read my second article on the Red Sox. “Matty: I was talking to Paul Auerbach today. We think you should lay off the Red Sox thing.” “Why do say that,” I asked. “It’s just to get…

Getting ready to continue on after a good night’s rest, Paul A, Spike’s buddy, walked by me already prepared to move on. We exchanged greetings. Paul asked how I slept and referred to the earlier conversation I had with Spike. “I see you’re beginning to wonder about Obama?” “Sort of.” I replied. “You think he’s…

Spike caught up to me as I was taking a break on the journey. “What do you think of the prez doing all those fund raisers?”  he asked. “I’ve been wondering about that,” I replied. “He doesn’t seem to spend any time doing any thinking or reading – he’s always running around doing foolish interviews.”…

I woke to the news today about the nation that was relatively stable until we adopted it and since that time has acted our prodigal and disobedient child. We supporting putting Maliki in charge of this nation but we now want him out. (Shades of Vietnam) “He ain’t going to be prime minister,” a high State Department…

Did you ever see anyone take such a battering as Secretary of State Kerry when he went to Egypt to try to gain a cease fire in the mini-war that has seen as of Monday of last week 67 Israeli deaths, none being women or children, and 1,806 Palestinian deaths with about half being women and…

My mother’s name before she got married was Alice Rogers. I sometimes thought it would be nice if rather than taking our father’s surname we took our mother’s. I’d imagine at times my last name to be Rogers rather than Connolly. If that if that were the tradition I thought my cousin Roger would be known…