Just to "Win"? Really?
I cheated once. I think it was the only time I deliberately, knowingly did something to “win”. Fresno High School. Junior year....
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Eliot Daley
- Feb 2, 2022
Nobody's Gonna Fix It For Us
Early in my career, I served as a pastor on the staff of a large church. One day a parishioner came to meet with me, ostensibly for...
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Eliot Daley
- Jan 25, 2022
When Tie-Breakers Break Down
The best tennis match I ever played consisted of only one marathon set. That set ended inconclusively with each of us having won fifteen...
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Eliot Daley
- Jan 10, 2022
Despair Is Not An Option
A few years back, Patti and our daughter Ali and I were in a serious pickle. Sailing from Connecticut to Maine in a newly acquired...
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Eliot Daley
- Dec 8, 2021
How "Woke" Is Woke Enough?
It took me a while, but now I appreciate why some individuals want to be referred to as “they”. Thanks to sensitive tutelage by younger...
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Eliot Daley
- Nov 25, 2021
I Wish King Friday XIII Would Call Me Again
King Friday XIII didn't call to wish me Happy Birthday this year. He did call for thirty years. Every November 26 from 1971 to 2001. ...
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Eliot Daley
- Nov 22, 2021
Is Privacy an Outmoded Concept?
We were followed when we went into New York City last weekend. As we approached the Broadway theater district in our car, my cell phone...
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Eliot Daley
- Nov 12, 2021
Discombobulated by Alternative Realities
“We become the stories we hear.” The setting was the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C., late 1978. We were celebrating the introduction of...
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Eliot Daley
- Nov 3, 2021
Staying Married Isn’t Always Easy
We went to a small engagement party last weekend. By happy and improbable coincidence, the granddaughter of friends here in New Jersey...
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Eliot Daley
- Oct 24, 2021
Can Grief be Deferred to Death?
I call it a bad year when all three of my brothers die. Well, fourteen months, if you want to be technical about it. Two of them—Gene...
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