Jon's Journal

My buddy tells me a sad thing, that The Good Girl’s father had died. We

I went to school in Mahopac from Kindergarden through 12th grade. And from the first

When we got to 7th grade we were now in High School; no middle school.

One day in high school gym class, a group of coaches had us try to

During this period of intense focus on race in America, I am thinking back to

He was my first friend.  He loved close enough that we could walk to each

This is an odd place to start a little tribute to the couple that fostered

This memory just bubbled up, pun intended. Someone on the radio mentioned 7Up, the drink.

The regular school lunch portion of ravioli was 3 squares. For an extra cost you

One time in the mid sixties, friends took me to see a guy who had

I thought Richie Walasin was a cool kid. He never tried to be cool, which

I had one of my most stupid but lucky moments in Mr. G’s chemistry lab.

Part 1: One of our great history teachers – was it Mr. Haffner? – said

I just heard that a member of one the great old Mahopac farm families just

I think it was 6th grade when the hula hoop craze hit, full force. I

One day, after school, Artie and Jerry and I went down to Pressman’s drug store

The bus used to rattle its way up to the top of the hill on

A very distinct and faintly disturbing memory from the school bus ride: A bunch of

In the early days, there was one bus that took kids of every age to

Picture a little boy, first grade. It is the last day of school before Christmas