A Senior’s Observations, Opinions and Rantings: The Night Driver

By Charles P. Eberson Senior Moments I can’t sleep. I fall asleep, I just can’t stay asleep. Predictably, about one or one-thirty in the morning, I am awake and alert. Efforts to fall back to sleep are futile. I have read that as we age, we require less sleep but I don’t want less sleep. My mother used to be…

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A Senior’s Observations, Opinions and Rantings

Write on By Charles P. Eberson Senior Moments The conversation with my wife started with, “Chuck, you have a problem.” I was immediately intrigued by the suggestion of there being only one. Then she clarified with “Actually, it is more of a fetish.” Now, she really had my attention. I settled in for what I thought would be an interesting…

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A Senior’s Observations, Opinions and Rantings

School daze By Charles P. Eberson Senior Moments It was September 1964, and I was going to be a freshman at the “old” Atlantic City High School, formerly located on Albany Avenue, one block from the beach. I attended grade schools at Troy Avenue in Ventnor, then in Margate at Granville Avenue, Union Avenue and finally Eugene A. Tighe schools.…

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A Senior’s Observations, Opinions and Rantings

Halloween Memories By Charles P. EbersonSenior Moments Holidays are prone to bring back memories of years gone by and Halloween is no exception. In my tender young years, the night before Halloween, better known as Mischief Night, was perhaps, even more anticipated. It took planning, timing, supplies and coordination among our cadre of participants. We accumulated rolls of toilet paper,…

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A Senior’s Observations, Opinions and Rantings

A lesson in service By Charles P. EbersonSenior Moments Not too long ago, I was out and about with my daughter when we decided to share a bite at a local restaurant. There were so many excellent choices but we agreed on sharing a burnt ends brisket sandwich. Our order was placed and in a few minutes the manager called…

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A Senior’s Observations, Opinions and Rantings

Old surfers never die…they just photograph younger surfers By Charles P. EbersonSenior Moments As an old surfer who has hung up his surfboards, I have not hung up the anticipation; the expectation of an epic surf break in the morning. “Back in the day” as they say, we didn’t have “surf cams, ” where one can pull up the site…

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A Senior’s Observations, Opinions and Rantings: A Pirate’s Passing

By Charles P. EbersonSenior Moments It’s been difficult recently to view the news or scroll social media without seeing stories about the passing of Jimmy Buffett. For people of my generation, Buffett symbolized the notion of “Island Escapism.” Media outlets are flooding the airwaves with stories about his life, to which I have little to add. I can only tell…

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A Senior’s Observations, Opinions and Rantings

A Fond Farewell to Summer By Charles P. EbersonSenior Moments It’s over.  The summer I had been waiting for this past, seemingly eternal, winter is over.  While winter clung on tenaciously, I vowed not to complain about the heat when summer arrived, and yet the heat and humidity had me yearning for its end. Oscar Wilde wrote, “Conversation about the…

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A Senior’s Observations, Opinions and Rantings: More than a Boathouse

By Charles P. EbersonSenior Moments If anyone is paying attention to this life, they will recognize there are stages, cycles or passages this journey takes us through. The more years behind us, the more in retrospect, we recognize the paths we have traveled. Sometimes, these paths have been a flat, smooth terrain through a bucolic landscape of plush forestry. Other…

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A Senior’s Observations, Opinions and Rantings

The daze of summer By Charles P. EbersonSenior Moments Just prior to summer, it is common in the shore communities such as the shore community in which I live, to post what I call “Rules of Conduct” to follow for residents and visitors alike. Usually, they consist of biking hours, dog walking, alcohol consumption and observing pedestrian crossings since they…

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A Senior’s Observations, Opinions and Rantings

A Lesson from LEGO By Charles P. EbersonSenior Moments In the past, I have lamented about the decline in service by companies vying for our dollars. I come from a time when gas stations checked your oil and cleaned your windshield while you gassed up. If that means I’m old then, well, you know. Companies actually had a switchboard manned…

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A Senior’s Observations, Opinions and Rantings

Monday, Monday Senior MomentsBy Charles P. Eberson They lurk in many of the coastal homes along the shore and occasionally in the homes on the mainland. They may be found in garages, crawl spaces or even bedrooms of some of the homes sometimes only seeing the light of day when conditions are perfect and this past Monday, conditions were perfect.…

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A Senior’s Observations, Opinions and Rantings

The legacy of fatherhood By Charles P. EbersonSenior Moments Sitting on a sparsely populated beach as I did in Ventnor this week, can give one pause for reflection. With Father’s Day on my mind, I thought of my role as a son, father and grandfather. My father was raised in the early portion of his life in an orphanage. His…

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