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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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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