Category: Memories

  • Take Me Out To The Ballgame

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    Jack Leitmeyer

    Because of my recent eye surgery, I’ll have to watch the Phillies opener from home this year. But baseball season always reminds me of my Pop-Pop Waters. Born in 1908, Pop-Pop was a lifelong Phillies fan. He would listen to every game on the radio, or watch them on TV…

  • Do You Remember?

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    Jack Leitmeyer

    “The laughter and the tearsThe shadows of misty yesteryearsThe good times and the bad you’ve seenAnd all the others in betweenRemember, do you rememberThe times of your life?” Recorded by Paul Anka (1975) – written by Roger Nichols / Bill Lane There are certain historical events from the first 50…

  • Feeling 20 Again

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    Jack Leitmeyer

    Today Eva and I attended a special dinner and educational session for prostate cancer patients and caregivers at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. The dinner was in the cafeteria, the same place where I first talked to Eva some 45 years ago, when we were both young research technicians working…

  • Gimme A Head With Hair

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    Jack Leitmeyer

    “Gimme a head with hairLong, beautiful hairShining, gleamingStreaming, flaxen, waxen Give me down to thereShoulder length or longer (Hair!)Here baby, there mamaEverywhere daddy daddy Hair, hair, hair, hairGrow it, show itLong as I can grow itMy hair” (Hair Broadway Musical – 1968) One of my biggest arguments with my father…

  • Time Passages

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    Jack Leitmeyer

    Well I’m not the kind to live in the pastThe years run too short and the days too fastThe things you lean on, are the things that don’t lastWell it’s just now and then, my line gets castInto these time passagesThere’s something back there that you left behindOh, time passages…