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Tuesday, February 05, 2019

Tip the nice flight attendant, why don’t you.

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Having worked as a waitress back in the day, I’m a pretty good tipper. I tip generously in restaurants, and I also tip my wonderful hairdres...
Monday, February 04, 2019

Truck Day

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I’m writing this on Friday, February 1st. So I don’t know whether Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow on Saturday. So I don’t know whether we’l...
Friday, February 01, 2019

Change of Scenery

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I spent the better part of last week in Tucson, Arizona. As they have a number of times in the past, my sister Kath and her husband rented a...

Change of Scenery (illustrations)

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Since I'm still having problems embedding pictures in any posts created using my blogging utility (don't ask), I've put together...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

Seltzer boys*

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Over the last couple of years, I’ve become something of a seltzer kind of gal. I was generally drinking a (small) can of Diet Coke each day,...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2019

The old gray mares

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I’m not working much. But at 69, I’m still working. To be clear, I’m only working a few hours a week or so, so I’m not making much of a livi...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Chicken!

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I don’t cook or eat a ton of meat, but when I do, 95% of the time, it’s chicken. I like other meats just fine, too. I like steak. I like ha...
Monday, January 28, 2019

Enough already

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Last Wednesday, I said good-bye to the cold, the icy sidewalks, and the snow-mounds sprayed with dog pee, and headed to Tucson, where my sis...
Friday, January 25, 2019

Three coins in a fountain

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As anyone who’s ever been a tourist in Rome can tell you, the Trevi Fountain is a tourist magnet. Each year, tourists make their wishes and ...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

You can run but you can’t hide

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On New Year’s Eve, there was a stabbing and robbery in the Boston Public Garden, which is just outside my front door. I wasn’t home that nig...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Another soon to be lost art: tying your shoes

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I recently ordered a pair of comfy shoes. This is not actually a point of departure, as most of my shoes are comfy shoes. 99.99% of the time...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Dueling bikinis

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Not that I’ll ever be in the market for one, but these little denim and crocheted bikinis are plenty cute. Not that I’d pay a couple hundred...
Monday, January 21, 2019

MLK still lies a spinning in his grave

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Last year, I observed Martin Luther King Day with a post entitled MLK is spinning in his grave , and it’s pretty clear that the good doctor ...
Friday, January 18, 2019

Mondo Kondo

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I have not yet given into the temptation to start watching the new Netflix series, Tidying up with Marie Kondo . I’m still getting caught up...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Don’t cry, honey…

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In naming me Maureen, my parents covered a couple of bases. There was my grandmother, Mary Trainor Rogers. (Maureen is the Irish diminutive ...
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Mary Wolf Dineen (1925-2019)

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For some reason, I was unable to embed a picture of my Aunt Mary – here, at Wrigley Field on her big day as the Cubs Way of Life winner in 2...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

How ‘bout them cowgirls?

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I came of television-watching in the great era of the Western. There were the Saturday morning kiddy shows like Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Rang...
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