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Showing posts with label careers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label careers. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Good news for those who aren't a whiter shade of pale

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A couple of weeks ago, I had what is likely my final visit with my dermatologist. I was there for a periodic skin check, but the doctor foun...
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

"Catch me if you can"? Will do!

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When I was a kid, I avidly read the book The Great Impostor , which chronicled the exploits of one  Ferdinand Waldo Demara, a Massachusetts-...
Thursday, January 08, 2026

Assisted living for penguins? Yes!

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Years ago, I saw the March of the Penguins , a documentary about the life of the emperor penguins of Antarctica. Talk about nasty, brutish, ...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

The Hills Are Alive, with the sound of nuns escaping

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Throughout my Catholic childhood, we were regularly encouraged by the nuns and priests to pray for a vocation (where vocation, of course, me...
Thursday, October 30, 2025

Talk about a niche profession

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This may come as something of a shock to my readers - it does to me - but I have never been to Walden Pond. Sure, I read Thoreau way back in...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Those lousy things we said about Galileo? Didn't mean a word of it!

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Summers can be hot in Rome, at the Vatican. Fortunately, the popes can escape the heat by grabbing the popemobile and bopping down to Castel...
Wednesday, August 06, 2025

Still going strong in their 80's: Exhibit A, Exhibit B

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A few weeks ago, there was a cute little article in The Boston Globe about a cute old guy - Jim "Caino" Cain - who, at the age of...
Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Of course this caught my attention...

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I've got to believe that, like the policeman in Pirate's of Penzance , a priest man's job is not a happy one. Since the high poi...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Amazon, the great job-creator!

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I may not like Amazon, but I do order plenty of stuff off their site. Yes, I always (mostly always) try to get what I want locally, in a br...
Monday, September 09, 2024

Now that's a slimey business

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I don't have much experience with slime. It just wasn't a thing when I was a kid. We had modeling clay, which came in dull colors - ...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

Ready for your closeup, Sandy? ARF!

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Rudd Weatherwax. Now there's a name from my childhood. My childhood and that of every Baby Boomer who grew up watching Lassie on three-c...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

When dreams die hard

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After I graduated from college, I started out in a PhD program in political science at Columbia.  I can't remember what I was thinking, ...