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Thursday, June 06, 2019

D-Day

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Growing up, World War Two seemed so very long ago. Those B&W films we watched on Boston Movietime – Purple Heart, Bataan, Corregidor – ...
Wednesday, June 05, 2019

It the crop top fits? But, nah, it really won’t…

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A charity that I’m involved with is the frequent beneficiary of clothing donations from a local apparel maker that specializes in athletic-r...
Tuesday, June 04, 2019

Theater of the absurd

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Who needs to go out for dinner and the theater? (Or for dinner-theater, if those joints still exist.) You can get Grub Hub to bring in dinne...
Monday, June 03, 2019

Sustainable craft water. YGTBKM.

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No, not the craft water that you buy in craft stores so that you can make fake floral arrangements look real by adding clear epoxy. (Not tha...
Friday, May 31, 2019

Climb Every Mountain

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I don’t have a lot of things on my bucket list. See Portugal. See Pittsburgh. (No. Seriously.) Write a novel. (Note to self: better get goin...
Thursday, May 30, 2019

Congratulations Dr. Dembe, Congratulations Dr. Webb

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Sometimes I forget what it was like. Back then, back in the day, when women in greater number were starting to forge professional careers ou...
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Wednesday, May 29, 2019

“There are results, and then there are excuses.”

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If you look at Michael Avenatti’s website , you’ll see a rotating banner floating pithy statements, presumably from the man himself. First u...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Get me fact check, stat!…

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I’ve never read her work, but I’ve been aware of Naomi Wolf for a while. She’s the lefty feminist thinker and writer who’s big on outrage an...
Monday, May 27, 2019

Memorial Day 2019

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Memorial Day and I go back a long way. Back to when it was known as Decoration Day – the day when you went out to decorate the graves of lov...
Friday, May 24, 2019

I love my town, but this poll result is just insane. (Wicked insane.)

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My town and state typically rank pretty high when it comes to rankings based on objective reality. Health, wealth, education…we tend to end ...
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Thursday, May 23, 2019

Easily influenced

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One of the worst aspects of social media is that it pushes how brilliantly everyone else is doing right in your face. It used to be that we ...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Tweet in haste

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There are all sorts of little feuds and contretemps that swirl around on Twitter, but that don’t always gain much traction in the normal (an...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Lost in Space

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I pride myself on posting every weekday – and have a pretty much unbroken streak since shortly after I began blogging many moons ago. Today,...
Monday, May 20, 2019

Wayne’s World

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With so much cra going on in the news – most of it of the “you can’t make this stuff up” variety – last month’s word that then-NRA President...
Friday, May 17, 2019

New York, New York

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Last week, I spent a couple of days in New York City. The occasion was the civil wedding of someone very dear to me, someone I’ve known sinc...
Thursday, May 16, 2019

Canned hunting? These folks seem nice.

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If you want to hunt animals so you can eat them, not my cup of tea, but fine (as long as you’re not hunting with AK-47’s or worse, and no hu...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

I suppose it could have been worse

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It was in Stardust Memories that director – or should I pay true homage: auteur – Woody Allen’s protagonist lived in an apartment with a mu...