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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Eliot Daley
- Oct 20, 2021
Re-Friending Your Life
It took a small village to raise us and our kids. The small village was a fortuitous group of seven young families who met and bonded...
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Eliot Daley
- Oct 5, 2021
Old Dog, New Trick (a work-in-progress)
About three million. That’s my best estimate of how many times I hit a tennis ball with a racquet during my seventy years playing the...
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Eliot Daley
- Sep 30, 2021
How Not to Treat a Friend (or Anyone)
Last night I had one of our dearest friends for dinner. That’s “have a friend for dinner” as the psychopathic cannibal Hannibal Lecter...
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Eliot Daley
- Sep 11, 2021
Being Taught to Hate Works Well
I felt a twinge of hatred on Saturday. Pure. Unadulterated. And well-aged. It had been instilled in me when I was five years...
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Eliot Daley
- Sep 11, 2021
Gimme a break!
The comfy old American plea “Gimme a break!” has been around for a long time. And we all know what it means: “I’m doing the best I can,...
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