Letters for George

This is a personal blog about lots of topics, e.g., dogs, family, retirement, childhood, life in the U.P., humor. The George in the title is my dear brother-in-law George Levenson, husband, father, grandfather, brother, filmmaker, who left us prematurely on his 63rd birthday in 2007. His having been my favorite e-mail correspondent, I intend these stories as a tribute to George and his ever-present impact on his loved ones.

Sunday, April 21, 2024

NIL: A Nightmare for College Sports?

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Dear George,  College sports have been turned upside down in the last few years. For over a century the NCAA treated college sports as an a...
Sunday, April 7, 2024

AN ODE TO APRIL

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  Dear George,  All the months have something special about them, but I think that April might be the best. It’s the month when the floweri...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

REVISITING THE ATOMIC AGE

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  Dear George, Oppenheimer won Best Picture at the Academy Awards so we finally got around to watching it.  It covered arguably the most sig...
Friday, March 1, 2024

HOW DOES POETRY DIFFER FROM PROSE?

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Dear George,  I’ve been taking poetry classes through UC’s OLLI program for the last 5 or 6 years. I don’t know if I’m getting any better, ...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

VALENTINE'S DAY MUMBLINGS

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Dear George, Another Valentine’s Day has come and gone. I did spend some time looking up the holiday’s history. According to legend, Vale...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

2023: OUR NEW YEAR'S NEWSLETTER

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  Dear George,  It’s time once again to wrap up another year. I’d say 2023 has to be an outstanding year because, to our happy surprise, ...
Monday, December 18, 2023

LOST MENOMINEE

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                Dear George,  According to Thomas Wolfe, “You can’t go home again” — truly a paradox since we tend to regard home as the ...
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Friday, December 8, 2023

BUREAUCRATIC NIGHTMARE DEPARTMENT

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Dear George,  All this medical stuff puts us at the mercy of huge impersonal bureaucracies, and it’s starting to drive me crazy. A few mont...
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David L.
Cincinnati, OH
This is a personal blog that I began shortly after I retired in 2009 from my social psychology faculty position at a large Midwestern university. The blog contains stories and reflections (usually by me but not always) about a variety of things past and present, e.g., growing up in Menominee in Michigan’s U.P. with my siblings, Steven, Peter, & Vicki, and our parents Vic & Doris; family life with my wife Katja, son J, daughter-in-law K, grandkids A & L; our doggies; Cincinnati and our Clifton neighborhood; everyday events; and various life interests. I try to inject some humor into most of this. I hope you find it enjoyable.
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