The Off The Fence Post

By Terrence McCarthy

Friday, May 4, 2007

Terrence McCarthy: 60, How I hated to turn that corner | Contributors | Rhode Island news | projo.com | The Providence Journal

Here's an op-ed piece I had published in the Providence Journal this morning. It was based on a Fence Post piece I wrote a few weeks ago...

Terrence McCarthy: 60, How I hated to turn that corner Contributors Rhode Island news projo.com The Providence Journal
Posted by Terrence McCarthy at 9:58 AM

No comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

About Me

Terrence McCarthy
I am a former newspaper reporter, advertising copywriter/creative director and psychiatric counselor/human rights officer.
View my complete profile

Blog Archive

  • ▼  2007 (391)
    • ►  June (61)
    • ▼  May (108)
      • This TB story's getting interesting. The guy who ...
      • Speaking of music, violence and guys sporting face...
      • Former Providence mayor Vincent " Buddy " Cianci m...
      • YouTube - Paul McCartney - Ever Present Past
      • YouTube - Paul McCartney & Michel Gondry - New Video
      • There's a terrific profile of Paul McCartney in Th...
      • A few posts back I wrote about driving over that b...
      • YouTube - Baseball and Football
      • The Red Sox are 35-15. They have an 11 1/2 game l...
      • Not sure if regular commentista Jennifer's hubby i...
      • The cardinal eggs have hatched!
      • Father's Day looms. Which explains what follows. ...
      • The weather's been great this Memorial Day weekend...
      • Four spotted eggs were spotted in the nest in the ...
      • It's Memorial Day.Easthampton, Massachusetts. 1959...
      • Regular commentatista, Jennifer, has requested tha...
      • Well, now that I've lost the few readers and comme...
      • I am completely responsible for the lyrics in the ...
      • I just responded to my old friend, Fred's opinion ...
      • YouTube - Eminem Mockingbird
      • Some short takes on what's been happening down her...
      • Cape Wind, the subject of the recently published C...
      • Cape Wind - Wendy Williams and Robert Whitcomb -Bo...
      • Here's a rework of a previous post. It's what I ju...
      • I won't bore you with the details, but I said I'd ...
      • When the Strother Martin character reported back t...
      • YouTube - Failure to communicate - Cool Hand Luke ...
      • Journal Inquirer - Death sentence: Guards, inmates...
      • YouTube - Tom Petty - I Won't Back Down
      • Once a newspaper reporter, always one. This unemp...
      • Dick Cavett - Opinion - Times Select - New York Ti...
      • The big news down here in Rhode Island is that Vin...
      • Good writing workshop this morning. Gale did her ...
      • There's a link on the last post to the X Files. O...
      • I Led Three Lives: Information from Answers.com
      • Forgot to thank the gentleman from Jacksonville fo...
      • AT&T
      • You start the day by drowning a mouse and you migh...
      • Lester Bangs on "Astral Weeks"
      • You reach a certain age - someone you've loved for...
      • Arcade Fire. The National. Rock groups you 40 and ...
      • An update on my quest for the Grail, the Grail bei...
      • Two years ago two robins built a nest in the bush ...
      • I was in the passenger seat of the Chevy Malibu dr...
      • Major League Baseball Commisioner Bud Selig was as...
      • Xchanger ran a good race. Was ahead half way thro...
      • Post time is 45 minutes away. The Preakness. This...
      • I'm watching the Suns/Spurs game. San Antonio lead...
      • Sometimes in the process of looking for work, the ...
      • It's Friday night. Nearing 10 p.m., the time, when...
      • YouTube - Waiting for Godot
      • I've been noticing lately that peoples' moods are ...
      • This is a rewrite of a previous post. I'm about t...
      • I don't know what Pat Conroy's been doing lately, ...
      • When I was a kid my mother worked in a mill: Unit...
      • Terry Cowgill's blog today has an interesting post...
      • For those readers who have not read the comments o...
      • From the Off The Fence Post Department of Correcti...
      • If you haven't hopped on the Boston Red Sox band w...
      • We're back from the Cape. We had a great time. W...
      • YouTube - Warren Zevon - Splendid Isolation
      • I had Allen Shawn's book Wish I Could Be There on ...
      • Don't be too concerned if you don't see any Fence ...
      • RAF Chicksands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      • I had a 9 am meeting in Providence Tuesday. Drove ...
      • " We tell ourselves stories, in order to live. " ...
      • The late Arthur Miller was fascinated by how easil...
      • The assignment I gave for the writing workshop I f...
      • Mike Daisey
      • A couple of months ago I was writing about how wel...
      • Gee Sgt. Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymo...
      • I mentioned a few posts ago that blogs are like ne...
      • YouTube - Lucinda Williams........Right In Time
      • YouTube - Roxy Music - More than this
      • Just for the record. Hopper's made friends with h...
      • Edward Hopper: Early Sunday Morning
      • The first assignment I gave the writing workshop I...
      • YouTube - The Godfather
      • Speaking of talk radio and little weasels...Buddy ...
      • Name me one other blog that can segue like this on...
      • Donna and I are watching the derby coverage. She ...
      • Dear Fence Postistas.There's going do be slow blog...
      • Top Seven Ferret Questions
      • Audio: Rudy Giuliani's Ferret Freak-Out [Oliver Wi...
      • "I Love You Sweatheart" by Thomas Lux
      • YouTube - John Mellencamp - Pink Houses
      • Last week John Mellencamp, formerly John Couger Me...
      • Terrence McCarthy: 60, How I hated to turn that co...
      • Terry Cowgill
      • Marty Miller. I feel your pain.Who's Marty Miller...
      • 've been thinking a lot about blogging lately. Wh...
      • Smooth Pebbles : Farewell to Seed SciBlog -- and W...
      • Terry Cowgill » Death of a Trailer Park
      • YouTube - When I Grow Up I Wanna Work in Advertising
      • Every now and then I'll Google myself ( And every ...
      • One Person’s Career Change from Advertising to Cou...
      • Speaking of death... ( Gee, hasn't Fence Post bee...
      • Tom Poston isn't doing too well.Poston was the las...
      • YouTube - Jackson Browne - Barricades of Heaven
      • Ahh. I feel better now.
    • ►  April (100)
    • ►  March (122)