Ezra's Essays

Category: Nostalgia

  • ONE OF THOSE MUSICAL MEMORIES

    This essay is an exercise in my own personal nostalgia. It may well be that it will not resonate with many of my readers. But if you will stick with me for a few minutes, you may be enthralled and entertained. Or you may just be bored. The Carr family had three of us who…

  • DISPARATE PONDERINGS

    The title to this essay, “Disparate Ponderings,” may well reflect the influence of the New York Times editorial pages upon my brain. The ponderings in question really have to do with remembrances of years past. There are six thoughts in this essay and I hope that some of them will remind old-timers of the days…

  • BANISHED THOUGHTS

    Because of its sacredness, this is an essay that should be read in silence, preferably in a monastic setting. On the other hand, if you prefer to read it aloud in the midst of a bawdy house, there is nothing that can be done to stop that. The author would like to have the address…

  • BLOODY CODGERS | Meditations: Chapter XII, Verses Leviticus – Levi’s Jeans

    BLOODY CODGERS ARE ALMOST ALWAYS ORNERY OR CODGERS ARE OFTEN BLOODY ORNERY OR ORNERY CODGERS ARE USUALLY BLOODY MEAN Meditations: Chapter XII, Verses Leviticus – Levi’s Jeans Verse 1: Good Old Words Don’t pay too much attention to the titles for this part of the current Meditations series. Nostalgia has overtaken me as there is…

  • WHERE DID THE JOBS GO? – TO YOU AND ME

    This is a follow-up essay to an earlier piece called “Jobless Nostalgia.” Before we get to the heart of the subject, every reader should know that a new table and a new chair are being used for this monumental work of essay writing. Earlier this year, Miss Chicka decided that my office chair, which had…

  • HOW I BECAME A PROTESTANT

    It would be a great source of regret it any reader were to conclude from the title of this essay, that this is a religious piece. Banish the thought. Quite to the contrary, this vignette is an Army story. When we reach the latter stages of this inquiry, there will be a denouement that will…

  • BITS AND PIECES | AUTOMOBILES AND MEN’S SHOES

    During my formative years, it was necessary to work. This was in the Great Depression which lasted from 1929 until war broke out in December, 1941. During that time, the place where one went to buy gas or to have a car lubricated was called a filling station. Later when wordsmiths took a leading role…

  • BITS AND PIECES MORE ABOUT SOME OLD CARS

    My father bought a new 1914 or 1915 Mitchell touring sedan. The Mitchell had just come out. Pictures say it was a beautiful automobile, but my memory has no recollection of it at all. (see attachment) In my time, he drove straight six cylinder Studebakers. For a time, he drove a straight eight Packard. The…

  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK PART 1 – A CASE OF CHOLESTROL POISONING

    In a recent essay, I grumbled that it had been my misfortune to write about politicians for some time. I observed that writing about politicians is a sordid business. I believe that now is the time to write about some people I liked and respected. In this new phase of my life as an essayist,…

  • TAKE ME OUT TO THE AFRICAN BALL GAME

    The title of this essay is a bit misleading because at the time this game took place, Africans played no baseball at all. On the other hand, it is a celebration of a game played by GI’s late in 1944 or 1945 between two clubs whose managers disliked each other with such intensity as to…