Two Gifts
By Ray Lenarcic For Rebecca Cartright, Christmas was the most exciting time of the year. She loved everything about it, beginning with the family Christmas tree, which was twelve feet tall, covered with ornaments, and...
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Altruism Personified
By Ray Lenarcic What would you do if you were a sixteen-year-old boy with Neurofibromatosis, Autism, Ring Chromosome 17 Syndrome, Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID), Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP),...
Read MoreJake and Jake Frost
By Ray Lenarcic The Evergreen Orphanage for Boys was a three-storied ramshackle eye-sore of a building located just outside the mountain village of Zugerand. Originally intended to accommodate 200 orphans, by the early 19th...
Read MoreAnother Thanksgiving Memory
By Ray Lenarcic As Thanksgiving Day draws near, memories have surfaced of a special trip I took during my childhood over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house. My Slovenian grandmother, that is. As soon as I...
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By Ray Lenarcic My fondest memories of Thanksgiving are from those halcyon days in the 1950s in my hometown of Little Falls. Memory Number One: Dinner at my Slovenian grandmother’s. Grandma never served turkey-couldn’t...
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The Irony of Ironies
By Ray Lenarcic Irony is defined as a combination of circumstances or a result that is opposite of...
Read MoreA Veterans Day Tribute
By Ray Lenarcic – November 11, 2014 A shout out to the men and women veterans of the “Greatest Generation” from us Baby Boomers who owe so much of what we have to their sacrifices on our behalf. Regarding the former, we...
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Latest names honored at Herkimer College Veterans Memorial Park
By Ray Lenarcic I just returned from a program at HCCC honoring the latest names appearing on the...
Read MoreThe Jack-O’-Lantern
By Ray Lenarcic When I was a very little boy, I recall having the bejeezus scared out of me upon laying eyes on a carved pumpkin. Illuminated by a lit candle, it resembled a monster. Welcome to Halloween. Years later, when...
Read MoreSuffer the Little Children
By Ray Lenarcic My academic specialty is the Native American. One thing that always bothered me about our Christian government’s treatment of indigenous people is that when it was through depriving them of millions of acres of...
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