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• Handicapped? Using a Walker Has its Benefits. Like Walking!

  Published on November 6, 2019.

  By: Joe Ball I’ve heard it said that “when you age – – the feet & legs are first to go”. True – – as it affects me. But first some good things about aging. I’m soon to be 88. I feel good … from the waist up.   Downward, well no comment . . . I have neuropathy . That’s

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• Memories: On The Happy Occasion of my wife, Sandy’s 73rd Birthday

  Published on October 21, 2019.

    The first time I ever saw Sandra Cohan was at her front door, 2442 Bryn Mawr Ave., in the Wynnefield section of Philadelphia. I was there as a “blind date.” She was 19. I was 28. I remember my first thought, when she opened the door of her parent’s home: It was: “I like her looks!” Our first date

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• A Near-Death Experience

  Published on September 18, 2019.

  I think I know what death is. I had a “near-death” experience. It was nothing like the recollections of the people featured recently in the Inquirer by staff writer Faye Flan. Those people told of happy near-death experiences involving light, flowers, music, and even a beautiful male angel. T’aint from one who knows (or so thinks) My experience came several

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• Marking 57 Years of Marriage (6/1/09) — A Letter to My Wife

  Published on September 18, 2019.

  June 1, 2009 – – The 51st Anniversary of our Wedding. We remain husband and wife. Together… 51-years… And, for me, 51-years of a wonderful life – – thanks to your, Sandra Lee (Cohan) Ball. I have often said the two best things I have done in my life were (1) marrying you and (2) starting my own business. Number

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• Getting Old…….. To My Ever – – So- Young Friends! A Collection

  Published on September 16, 2019.

  I very quietly confided to my best friend that I was having an affair. She turned to me and asked, ‘Are you having it catered’? And that, my friend, Is the definition of ‘OLD’! *** Just before the funeral services, the undertaker Came up to the very elderly widow and asked, ‘How old was your husband?’ ’96,’ she replied: ‘Two

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• Living As A Senior

  Published on October 30, 2018.

  Living As A Senior by Joe Ball (www.PhillyBizMedia) When you’re 88 years of age, life can be boring. It can consist of … … Sleeping late in the morning … Having the same get-up routines (early to the bathroom for the everyday AM brushing of teeth, showering, swallowing pills, taking the daily sugar blood count, checking the I-Phone for weather

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• RECOLLECTIONS OF A KOREAN WAR ERA DRAFTEE

  Published on November 9, 2016.

  Remembering Rifleman Training I’m going to be in a book. It probably will not be read by many people – but I’m still flattered. The book is about the U.S. Army’s Camp Brekinridge, Kentucky, in the year 1951, during the Korean War. That’s where thousands of draftees were sent to train to be infantrymen. I was one of them ***************

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• Better Then the Alternative

  Published on June 10, 2016.

  As one grows older, one experiences things that normally don’t happen to those in their twenties and thereabouts. But a message to young  people – – Just Wait! The following is on the horizon for you, and already here for me. … Friends I’ve made in elementary school, high school, boy scouts & back-of-house driveway areas are sometimes recognizable.  Not

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• 60 Years In Business & Haven’t Worked a Single Day

  Published on January 29, 2016.

  This year, 2016, will mark my 60th year as an entrepreneur and business owner.   The firms I have founded primarily pertain to marketing (that’s a word that came into being many years after my first business  which was called a publicity firm).   Over the years, that beginning transformed into an advertising agency, newspaper & book  publishing, producer and owning radio

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• More Musing

  Published on September 22, 2015.

  There are observations and situations that sometimes make me wonder. Examples: …The older you get, the less you sleep through the night without a bathroom call. …Cereal boxes are never filled to the top…Soap bars now evaporate more quickly, and the single sheets in the toilet paper rolls are thinner. …White collar criminals are too often lawyers. (Oh, just noticed,

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