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Thursday, September 07, 2017

Pleather or not

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I’m not a vegan. Although I mostly wear sneakers, I do wear leather shoes and boots. Although I do have plenty of non-leather bags, I do ca...
Wednesday, September 06, 2017

Won’t you let me take you on a sea cruise?

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Like most everyone else with a pulse and wi-fi, I followed the Hurricane Harvey news pretty closely. I had two things in particular I was lo...
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Tuesday, September 05, 2017

Where the Wild Things Are

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Last week, when I was visiting my sister and her husband in Wellfleet, I was awoken at about 2:30 in the morning by something terrible and v...
Monday, September 04, 2017

Labor Day, 2017

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It’s Labor Day. So just where did summer go? It was actually in the fifties this past Friday. It’s Labor Day. And unlike two-thirds of my...
Friday, September 01, 2017

September Song (or, “Been Through the Desert on a Horse with No Name”)

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There are any number of really terrible songs out there. You know, the ones that, when they come on the car radio (even if you think you’re ...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

Hey, Houston, ready to get your ERP/Cloud back online?

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I’ve been monitoring the doings in Houston via the news, and via my friend John’s Facebook page. John lives in Houston, and, as of this writ...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Rainbow sprinkles? Sorry, they belong on cupcakes.

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The other day, my sister Kath sent me a piece she’d seen on Serious Eats in which the the writer decried the disappearance of chocolate spr...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Oh, THAT Robert Lee

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By weekday, Robert Lee is the channel partner manager for a payroll services company. You can find him at the top of the LinkedIn heap – whi...
Monday, August 28, 2017

Voice-first shopping? My mother was ahead of her time

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Somewhere in passing I heard that the rising generation of consumers want to consume content that’s video, and consume everything via voice....
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Friday, August 25, 2017

Stand by your desk? Sit down, you’re rocking the boat? What are us desk jockeys to do?

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A few years back, a doctor working on obesity issues came up with a new mantra: sitting is the new smoking . Worse than smoking, maybe. Aft...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

Let them eat Hermes scarves!

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If you were, say, the wife of, say, the Secretary of the Treasury. Which would make you fifth in the line of succession to become FLOTUS, if...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Hey Lady! Or, my life with Jerry Lewis.

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The first movie I remember going to was 3 Ring Circus , which starred Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. It was playing at the Park Theater, in Wo...
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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Oh, the Totality!

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I just tried to look it up, but, at a quick glance (one not clouded by eclipse glasses), I couldn’t quite figure out what the eclipse action...
Monday, August 21, 2017

Alt-Wrong

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I sometimes ask myself what I would have done if I’d been living in Germany in the 1930’s. Oh, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have been a Nazi. ...
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Friday, August 18, 2017

Shake, shake, shake. Shake, shake, shake. Shake your salt shaker.

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This is my go-to salt & pepper shaker set. I like it for a couple of reasons. First off, they were a gift from my late, much be loved, a...