Coming out of the fog of the flu this week (the reason for a lapse in posting – so much for NaNoBloMo), I was excited about the Big Halloween Sports weekend that was happening in Philadelphia with both the Phillies and the Eagles against rivals from New York. The Phillies had left Yankee Stadium...

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So, growing up in the Ancestral Betz home autumn Sundays meant going to church and watching the Eagles. Except there was an important stop in between -- and that was to get soft-pretzels. We would go to a place called "Cass's Mart Pretzels" -- a fresh pretzel bakery that operated in an absolute dump...