Category: Lawrence Cohen

by Larry Cohen c 2025 You won’t save any money by heating with wood. You might think so, but unless you get free wood and someone else to put it in the woodstove, it won’t. If you ever get a “Wish you were here card!” from your...

by Larry Cohen c 2025 Meetings are a waste of time, all of them, all of the time. If you have friends who are vegetarians, don’t be upset if they don’t join you for a hamburger and hotdog barbecue. When the missionaries...

By Larry Cohen c 2025 Because I had such a great response on the things that my mother should have told me, but didn’t, I have collected more of those things that she never told me. “The phone will always ring as soon as you...

By Larry Cohen c 2025 All of us remember the things that our mothers taught us as kids. The usual, customary things such as “Don’t take candy from a stranger”, “Don’t go with strangers”, “Brush your teeth after you...

The Spotted Ball, A True Story by Larry Cohen c 2025 Chapter 24 “A future better than our past” Those of my dear readers who have been with me from the beginning of True Story understand that it has been a winding road. Early...

The Spotted Ball, A True Story by Larry Cohen c 2025 Chapter 23 “A Connoisseur of Crayons” Since this is a true story written in free form, sort of stream of consciousness, I am taking that liberty of digressing in order to...

The Spotted Ball, a True Story by Larry Cohen c 2025 Chapter 22 “Here, they really mean it” One time I found myself at a roulette table surrounded by the usual run-of-the-mill roulette players. I observed no “high rollers” nor...

The Spotted Ball, a True Story by Larry Cohen c 2025 Chapter 21 “Please Play Responsibly….Dial 877-8-HOPENY” Here in New York State, as in many other states, the claim by the State is that they want the gamblers (now referred to...