Monthly Archives: July 2020

Country Before Party – A Tale from History – From the Archives

Posted on July 30, 2020 by toritto

It is the Spring of 1964, Lyndon Banes Johnson is President and 22 year old Toritto is in the Army.  LBJ had become President on November 22, 1963 with the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Johnson was a Democrat – … Continue reading →

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Face – A Poem

Posted on July 29, 2020 by toritto

I have destroyed my face; Early in my life it was already too late. At 20 it was already too late At 20 I began to age This aging, I saw it subtle yet brutal spread across my features One … Continue reading →

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Leaving Alexandria

Posted on July 28, 2020 by toritto

I could not stay in Alexandria the brilliant blue sea, the cloudless sky the perfect yellow shore all lovely; bathed in light. Standing there, day dreaming of Antony lost was he between her limbs High Priestess of Isis intoxicated Roman. … Continue reading →

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What I Did This Weekend!!

Posted on July 27, 2020 by toritto

We drove to grandpa’s house!!  I wore his sun glasses! And we played with his phone!! . And watched the Disney channel too!! . . This is us!!  I’m on the left!! I played with bubbles out back.  That’s daddy … Continue reading →

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What Are You Eating!!

Posted on July 22, 2020 by toritto

Crackers!!  Wanna see? See you this weekend Papa! 🙂

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Khrushchev is Coming!!

Posted on July 20, 2020 by toritto

It was September of 1959 and young Toritto, who had just turned 17 years old, was working full time in the mailroom of what would become Citibank in New York City.  I had graduated the previous May from Lafayette High … Continue reading →

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Opening Schools, Childcare and the Great Divide

Posted on July 17, 2020 by toritto

Well I am certainly glad that I no longer have school aged children.  My grandson is only 3 and his mom is able to work from home so we don’t have to fret the idea of school re-opening here in … Continue reading →

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Matchbox Car – Poem #127 – From the Archives

Posted on July 16, 2020 by toritto

  You find it when your old life is lost moving dressers, peering under the bed while trying to make some sense of it all through cobwebs, mites and cat hair furniture and lamps a most familiar room where someone … Continue reading →

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Don’t Ask….Don’t Tell.

Posted on July 15, 2020 by toritto

Don’t ask… Julius Caesar Julius Caesar. Dictator and conqueror of the “barbaric” Gauls, lead an active sex life. Indeed, on long marches, his troops would sing songs about the “bald adulterer” as well as his bi-sexuality.  He was known to … Continue reading →

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Pamela’s Art in Lockdown

Posted on July 14, 2020 by toritto

“Narnia” in Blue The latest work by Pamela T. in pastel chalks and Magic Marker. Portrait of the artist as a child 🙂  

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