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Showing posts with label generations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label generations. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Proof of the pudding

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I like pudding.  Chocolate. Butterscotch. Vanilla. Rice. Grapenut. Tapioca. And the near relations: mousse, flan, and whatever's in the ...
Tuesday, July 08, 2025

Tell me a StoryFile.

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One of the corniest things I've ever seen in my life was the Talking Mr. Lincoln exhibit at Disneyland. This was more than 50 years ago,...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Rat People? Hard to blame them...

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As they come of age, every generation faces some sort of crisis or another, some worse than others. For my parents, it was the Great Depress...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Oh, what have they done to the smiley face?

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One of my home town of Worcester's many contributions to the greater good is the smiley face.  It was "invented" by one Harvey...
Wednesday, June 04, 2025

I'm taking my Benin Bronzes back, so there!

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You've heard the old saw before. There are variants, but it's something along the lines of the first generation works in the factory...
Monday, September 16, 2024

Nothing neat about NEETs. (Pretty sad, really.)

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The unemployment rate among American's 16-24 years old is running at about 9% - more than double the overall US average. While this is c...
Monday, February 05, 2024

All that rizz, Daddyo!

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The Oxford English Dictionary - and who or what would know better? - recently declared rizz the Word of the Year for 2023.  Rizz is not a wo...
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Monday, October 30, 2023

Rent a mom??? O tempora, o mores...

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I didn't have kids, and, although I once was one, that was a very, very, very long time ago. And, as I learned in Latin III, which I too...
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Friday, July 07, 2023

A career you can age in

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Retirement, apparently, is not for everyone. As is the case of four men - no strangers to the criminal justice system, wise guys with ties t...
Thursday, June 01, 2023

All hail, Martha Stewart!

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I can't recall exactly when Martha Stewart came on the scene. Forty-ish years ago, I'm guessing. I remember seeing her on TV, and pr...
Monday, February 13, 2023

Is it too late to learn Dutch?

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There are plenty of good things about this country, but the way we treat those in need - the poor, the disabled, the homeless, the sick, the...
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Go, Old Ladies!

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As a bona fide, certified elder (Social Security, Medicare, half-price T-pass), I know full well that us old gals still got it - or, if not ...
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Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Only the lonely

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I'm a BIG fan of assistive technology that will assistive us old geezers into being able to stay happily and contentedly in our very own...