Eliot Daley
- Apr 3, 2022
If Only They Had Asked Me (Part 2)
I’m still on recess from anything important, so here’s my next trivial wondering: What is it with these massive highway “sound barriers”...
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Eliot Daley
- Mar 31, 2022
If Only They Had Asked Me...
After writing a few posts on heavy-duty subjects like Ukraine and Putin, I need a nonsense break. So over the next couple of days, I’m...
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Eliot Daley
- Mar 22, 2022
I Shot Rule Rattray in the Heart
First time I ever shot another human being in the heart I was about eight or nine years old. The kid I shot was a little older. Nice...
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Eliot Daley
- Feb 26, 2022
I Want to Stop Him, But...
“These are the times that try men’s souls”, wrote Thomas Paine in “The American Crisis”, December 19, 1776. That same week, General...
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Eliot Daley
- Feb 20, 2022
Patti replied, "Of Course"
Sixty-two years ago today, I said “I do” and Patti said “I do.” And with that, we were married. But three months earlier, on November...
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Eliot Daley
- Feb 17, 2022
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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