When I was a grammar school boy In Queens, I would Often affix my name To a helium balloon, And… Read more It Is Balloon
Tag: Queens
Visiting St. Gabriel’s
I wanted to take a ride On the Q19B. It’s quite a foggy afternoon On Astoria Boulevard. I arrived at… Read more Visiting St. Gabriel’s
All Souls’ Day Mass, St. Gabriel’s, East Elmhurst
Pronunciation
My parents were both from northeastern Pennsylvania. I’ve lived in New York since I was around Three and a half… Read more Pronunciation
Celebrating Brooklyn And Queens Day
Since I spent some of the happiest time of my life in Queens, I couldn’t help posting this.
St. Gabriel’s
On Ninety Seventh Street and Astoria Boulevard In East Elmhurst, Queens, I passed St. Gabriel’s, Where once we youngsters Were… Read more St. Gabriel’s
St. Gabriel’s Glee Club
Click the Frog It’s 1970 and I’m in St. Gabriel’s glee club. Tonight we have a big concert and as… Read more St. Gabriel’s Glee Club
Show Tunes
Brother Edmond and Brother James wanted the St. Gabriel’s glee club to be the greatest thing that had every happened… Read more Show Tunes
Make Age Great Again
My sixtieth birthday has recently come and gone. I long ago crossed over the irrevocable borderline between ‘Young Man’ and… Read more Make Age Great Again
Change Stinks
I was reading ‘The Ambassadors’, daydreaming about this day in 1971, five days before my twelfth birthday. I’d just moved… Read more Change Stinks
