The kids go back to school today in my home New York state. Pull out the notebooks, pens, folders. You do still use notebooks, pens and folders in this digital age, students? Get ready for those butterflies in the stomach as you prepare to walk into a new classroom to be greeted by a different…
Free Advice is a periodic feature in which I answer anonymous letters sent to markbialczak.com. Today’s reader asks for my opinion on Super Bowl Sunday. Mark, I know you had mentioned you once wrote about sports and you had once lived on Long Island. I too grew up on Long Island. I’ve hit a low…
Damn, I miss these guys. A month back, I laid out the timeline through my life of nicknames, and Aggo, Twenty and Shaudy all made major appearances. How could they not? I’ve known Mike Agostino since we both were in the eighth grade. And that would have been in 1970. He and I only went…
One look at this photo, and memories of what brought my father Frank joy smack me in the back of the head. Yeah, sometimes he’d do that, too, figuratively, with just one of his parental death stares. But not when we were tooling around the village of Stony Brook. Our father was proud of this…
I was a pioneer in the snowboarding movement. This I discovered yesterday, when my sister Fran started a look-back Facebook thread because they were expected a good bit of snow on Long Island. Our neighbors two doors down on the Suffolk County hill that cascaded on our suburban street, the Carrs, chipped in with memories…
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