Category: Columns

by Ray Lenarcic Gimme that old-time religion Gimme that old-time religion Gimme that old-time religion It’s good enough for me. And it was. As I sit in wonder about the troubled state of religion in America today, I can’t help...

by Ray Lenarcic To hear my daughter tell it, and she was there, the six young children who regularly visited the Monroe Street Municipal Pool in Little Falls were “as cute as can be, well-behaved little angels.” Raised by a...

by Ray Lenarcic I never thought about turning 80. Because I hadn’t. But now that I’m about to, I was asked by a friend if there was one word that could describe how I felt about becoming an octogenarian. A word? Anyone who knows...

A local resident whom I’ve known for longer than I can remember and, turning 80 on 9/11, that’s a long time-wrote me the other day. We correspond periodically. We met in the late ’50s at my first rehearsal with the Military Band...

by Ray Lenarcic One of the definitions of irony, according to the Webster New World Dictionary, is a combination of circumstances or a result that is opposite of what is or might be expected or considered appropriate. A fitting...

by Ray Lenarcic A friend recently asked me, “Who are your heroes?” I answered based on my understanding that a hero is a person(s) whose effort or achievement goes way beyond the expected to the point of deserving to be...