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Louis Roney: Using the old bean

Lets halt dining permits until we figure out what we really want on Park Avenue.

Perhaps the City Commission could impose a 90-day freeze on all new dining permits for Park Avenue.

Louis Roney: Write to me, sing to me

Learning to write what you're thinking, and do it without fear.

There are lots of things that we human beings do that we can’t write about either effectively or without embarrassment.

Louis Roney: Pledging and hedging

A promise should never be given lightly.

When I was 19 or 20, I often looked at Robert Frost as he talked with colleagues a couple of tables away in the Eliot House dining room at Harvard. I wondered what promises he had made, and whether he had managed to keep them.

Louis Roney: How come we do us like we do, do, do?

Why do we live the way we do?

The average person’s day is probably made up of many habitual ingredients, starting with that first cup of coffee.

Louis Roney: The truth and other myths

I surely believe that there are “good” and “evil” people among us, for I have witnessed both good and evil in action up close.

I have witnessed both good and evil in action up close.

Louis Roney: Subway to success

Singing teacher and student relationships, I learned in my early New York days, are iffy matters indeed.

Singing teacher and student relationships, I learned in my early New York days, are iffy matters indeed.

Louis Roney: Random thoughts

There is this guy across the street from our place who is pretty zippy and he knows it.

There is this guy across the street from our place who is pretty zippy and he knows it.

Louis Roney: Virtue rewarded

Alinsky, like many other left-wingers, set out to destroy the very aspects of the U.S. Constitution that had bestowed his freedom.

Alinsky, like many other left-wingers, set out to destroy the very aspects of the U.S. Constitution that had bestowed his freedom.

Louis Roney: Bittersweet

Bitterness is something that best belongs to — well, the bitter.

Bitterness is something that best belongs to — well, the bitter, who are willing to settle for attitudes that produce nothing good for either the sender or the receiver.

Louis Roney: Grace's place

I approached a uniformed guard on the steps of the Palace and told him that I wanted to see the Princess.

I approached a uniformed guard on the steps of the Palace and told him that I wanted to see the Princess.

Louis Roney: Thinking out loud

I always disliked winter in Florida. We had no heat in our house, and it was my job to chop wood and make fires.

I always disliked winter in Florida, riding my bicycle two miles to school with my legs bare. We had no heat in our house, and it was my job to chop wood and make fires in two downstairs fireplaces.

Louis Roney: Let's Party!

Spring in Florida is a beautiful time to party.

On Feb. 23 the temperature reached 86 degrees here and was truly swimming weather.

Louis Roney: A bag of truffles

Turtles converge on Roney's land.

My b.w.’s morning ritual is to look out the window and report the number of avian and turtle visitors we are enjoying at that given moment.

Bach festival doesn't disappoint

Mozart featured at festival

Who can ever get too much Mozart, at one swallow?

Louis Roney: Wondering as we’re wandering

Pondering which came first.

Did God create man? Or, did man create God?

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