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Tuesday, February 06, 2024

Talk about a soap opera!

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Who among us hasn't had at least a tiny bit of a fantasy about a celeb?  Say, when you're twelve, you might dream about being Dr. Ki...
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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Thursday, February 01, 2024

The heart is a lonely worker

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There are plenty of reasons to envy the younger generation. Most of these reasons fall under the umbrella of "they have their entire li...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Dumpling Daughter

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Years ago - make that decades ago - there was a wonderful Chinese restaurant on the top of Beacon Hill that I frequented. If I've got my...
Tuesday, January 30, 2024

There's mountains, and then there's molehills

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I like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups as much as the next guy. After all, it combines two of my favorite food items: peanut butter and choc...
Monday, January 29, 2024

Geek companies rule? (Sorry I missed it!)

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My career was in the tech world, in geek companies.  Prior to the late 1970's/early 1980's, the word geek had a meaning that wasn...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

Bye-bye anxiety. (What, me worry?)

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No doubt about it. There are plenty of reasons to be anxious.  Climate change. The ghastly political situation in general. Trump & Compa...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Only connect!

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Other than Twitter/X, where I mosey around, occasionally commenting but rarely tweeting, I'm not really part of any online "communi...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Wayfair, you got just what no one needs

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I don't actually  need much of anything.  But if I did actually need much, a lot of what I need house-wise (or at least want ) would co...
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Monday, January 22, 2024

Talk about ghost written...

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Years ago, one of my clients was trying to come up with a lot of content for their website. And come up with it cheaply and quickly.  They g...
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Thursday, January 18, 2024

Did we really need something else to worry about??? (Part Two.)

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Just yesterday I was doing my not-so-friendly-skies fretting about the lack of air traffic controllers. Today, it's windows - or doors, ...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Did we really need something else to worry about??? (Part One.)

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I suppose if I thought about it, flying would make me nervous. After all, there you are, tens of feet in the air in a long skinny metal can ...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

The man in the gray flannel suit

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Over the course of my career, I saw the corporate dress code go from button-downed/buttoned up to pretty much anything goes. This was, of co...
Monday, January 15, 2024

MLK Day, 2024

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If Martin Luther King, Junior, had lived - rather than get mowed down in his early prime, at the age of 39 - he'd be an old man. Ninety-...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

I carry a badge, Federal Air Marshal edition

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I have to admit that I've never given a single moment of thought to what it must be like to be an air marshal. Even when I was frequent ...