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Thursday, April 30, 2026

Why am I not surprised

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When my mother's family arrived on these shores in the 1920's, my grandfather mistakenly thought that the fee for a family to be acc...
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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 28, 2026

A baseball yarn

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When I was a kid, my father would sometimes hand me a useless golf ball - one with a gash in its side that would render it erratic if put in...
Thursday, April 23, 2026

Who ARE these people (Cont.)

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It seems like just yesterday, I'd never heard of Taylor Frankie Paul, an influencer/momTikTok-er/reality star who was dumped by The Bach...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Who ARE these people?

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It's not like I don't watch plenty o' junk on TV.  I recently waded through all nine episodes of Love Story , which (controversi...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

A day late and a flag wave short

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Yesterday was Patriots' Day, and I did what I usually do. I went to the Red Sox game, which on Patriots' Day has an early (11 a.m.) ...
Thursday, April 16, 2026

Why we have regulations, Part one million, three hundred thousand, nine-hundred forty nine

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Chances are that, at any given time, there'll be a chunk of Parmigiano-Reggiano in my fridge. Some pasta on the shelf, a bottle of olive...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Nothing wrong with these paper roses

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I almost always have a bouquet of fresh flowers in my living room. Unless I'm getting a gift for someone, I rarely go to one of the expe...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026

OK. AI is good for some thing(s)

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One of the very worst diseases I can imagine is ALS. I had a friend - not a close friend, but a friend nonetheless - who died of ALS, and it...
Thursday, April 09, 2026

Palantiranny

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One of the most disturbing things to emerge from the current era is the ascendancy of the tech broligarchs. Or whatever they're called t...
Wednesday, April 08, 2026

Yes, chef? Maybe not for much longer

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When I was young, I logged a lot of hours as a waitress. None of those hours were logged in any place fancy: no executive chefs, no sous che...
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...