HeyJaredEd Ackerman
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The Optimist: The magical whiffle ball bat (opens the original)
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He was born by emergency C-section just after midnight on Sept. 27, 1986. He was a month premature. I couldn’t wait to tell his sister, age 3½, about it when she woke up and I did it in the form of a story, which we came to call “The Day Mikey Was Born,” and which she had me tell over and over through the day and for weeks to come. The star of the story, of course, was her new baby brother Michael. But her favorite character was the doctor who delivered him. You may know him as Dr. Martin Freife
The Optimist: What do you make of this? (opens the original)
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I was shocked when I saw George Morgan at the U.S. Open Tennis tournament in New York last week. One, because I didn’t peg George for a tennis fan. He passed away a few days after Christmas in 2022. He was 88. I have several fond memories of “Mr. Morgan,” as we called him when he coached in the Pittston Little League. One is the day when as a goofy little kid of about 8 years old, I came walking around the press box with a big smile on my face (for what reason I have no idea) and Mr. Morgan thre
The Optimist: Help Katie help others (opens the original)
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“I can never say no to you,” I told Katie Tobias when she asked if I’d devote a column to an upcoming fundraiser. “In fact,” I added, “that will be the first sentence I write.” Let me introduce you to this Katie to whom I can never say “no.” Then you will understand why her friends have come together to help her achieve her dream of helping others with Pulmonary Hypertension, a disease she has dealt with for nearly 20 years. I had never heard of Pulmonary Hypertension until Katie took one of my
The Optimist: Order the plantains (opens the original)
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But if the band Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young was right when they sang, “If you smile at me, I will understand, because that is something everybody, everywhere does in the same language,” then yes, the little guy had me at hello. A hello he “said” with his smile. His big, dazzling eyes had a lot to do with it too. They’re the color of dark roasted coffee beans which is quite appropriate since his mom prides herself on the coffee she serves at her breakfast and lunch café on Main Street in the h
The Optimist: Berry confusing (opens the original)
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The Pittston Tomato Festival conjures up the age-old debate of whether the tomato is a fruit or a vegetable. I had been under the impression the answer was clear: the tomato is a fruit. But as I was about to write that, I looked it up, just to be sure, and got a surprise. From the AI overview to britannica.com to the Iowa State University website, the answer was the same: the tomato is both. “It depends on your perspective,” the Iowa State people said. I would have thought “perspective” applied
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