Dilettante Life – A Writer's Space | kevin davitt | Activity https://dilettantelife.com/members/kevin-davitt/activity/ Activity feed for kevin davitt. Tue, 18 Nov 2025 02:21:46 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 78b4aa5bf2f3e93cadeb641b333a728c kevin davitt and Jo Toale are now friends https://dilettantelife.com/activate/p/63/ Fri, 03 Dec 2021 17:24:39 -0500 0 74a62c99ae1d1ebd1ace7552cfb37233 kevin davitt wrote a new post https://dilettantelife.com/?p=2352 Tue, 07 Jan 2020 16:16:09 -0500 Bob McTeirnan worked for the city for twenty-eight years. He was a plumber at one of the city’s housing projects. He’d been there since the old law tenements had been torn down and the urban renewal plan was […]

]]> 0 c03836d6f527181436bcff8b93521372 kevin davitt wrote a new post https://dilettantelife.com/?p=2346 Wed, 13 Nov 2019 17:26:08 -0500 IT’S over. Finished. Kaput.

Emancipation is mine.

After hundreds of hours spent in the car — racing to practices at the home field, running late to games in Newark and Ho Ho Kus, picking up, dropping off — […]

]]> 0 1c44aa57c46c45733e2507a981bd8e32 kevin davitt wrote a new post https://dilettantelife.com/?p=2343 Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:34:15 -0400 From the time I was 4 or 5 until I was 17, we spent summers in Breezy Point — bungalows and then the Surf Club.

We’d travel down to the club from Flatbush in the morning — around 10 a.m. or so — and Mom would […]

]]> 0 6521bea59a3265098a2957fba83de743 kevin davitt wrote a new post https://dilettantelife.com/?p=2349 Sat, 26 Oct 2019 17:41:59 -0400 It was Sunday – a very hot Sunday and the neighborhood was quiet. The heat created a veil – almost void of air or sound.

The only noise came from air conditioners humming and whirring and the dripping […]

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