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Showing posts with label other places. Show all posts
Showing posts with label other places. Show all posts
Thursday, September 24, 2026

Me? I'd live on Pesky Lane. And you?

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In my Worcester neighborhood, there was a clutch of streets with Native American names. Or Native American-ish names.  Wyola. Utica. Delawan...
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

It was the best of states, it was the worst of states

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I am a complete and utter sucker for state rankings, especially those that are flattering to my home state and the handful of other states I...
Thursday, July 16, 2026

Wii Bowling. (Wheeeeeee...)

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I don't have a non-bucket list, but if I were to maintain one, two items that would safely be on it: I will never join a bowling league ...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Longevity. (Remember when 80 used to sound old?)

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Last month, Tracy Kidder died at the age of 80. Kidder was a terrific long form journalist and I was a long-time reader and admirer of his w...
Tuesday, April 07, 2026

AI Strikes Again? You betcha!

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Tennessee grandmother Angela Lipps had lived a pretty uneventful life. At 50, most of that life had been spent in North Central Tennessee. S...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Tis another reason to love Ireland

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Well, it's St. Patrick's Day, and I have all those loaves of soda bread to prove it. As anyone who knows me knows, I love Ireland. I...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

The Office Park from Hell

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In 2024, Shunda Park "materialized and metastasized" almost overnight in the middle of nowhere on the Myanmar border. Unlike offic...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Talk about school trip gone bad

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When I was in kid, school trips weren't much of a thing. Fifty kids in a class? Where were we going to go, and who was going to foot the...
Thursday, February 05, 2026

Why am I not surprised? (Even if it's just GoFundMe.)

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My Irish forebears didn't leave Ireland as the (direct) result of the famine. They came over in the 1870's for the usual reasons: po...
Wednesday, February 04, 2026

Wanker

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Sir Benjamin Slade doesn't appear to have done much with his life, other than enjoy the life and trappings of a minor British aristocrat...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Let me not to the marriage of true minds...

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A couple of months ago came news out of Japan that a young woman, on the rebound from a bad breakup, had married a "persona named Klaua...
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...
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 ...
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...