Suprise Me
What’s That Smell?!
Prompted By Pandemic Holidays
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Look What They’ve Done to Your Pear, Milton Glaser!
Prompted By Pet Peeves
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Look What They’re Done to Your Pear, Milton Glaser! Lynn Truss who wrote Eats, Shoots and Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation is a woman after my own heart. She wishes for a ‘grammar police force’ that would hunt down and arrest merchants with ungrammatical signs on their storefronts and others who abuse the…
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Tonsillectomy, Age Three
Prompted By First Memory
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My tonsils are out
A nurse speaks: “Do you want ice cream, or ice chips?”
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Aunt Mickey
Prompted By Aunts & Uncles
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She was the fun aunt – the one who let me do everything my mother forbid.
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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.” ― Blaise Pascal
Prompted By Isolation and Solitude
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Back in the days of ‘Higher Education’ for me I ran into this Blaise Quote and kind of took it to heart. Below are some additional thoughts: Pascal’s quote is a profound observation about the human condition. It suggests that our miseries are often caused by our own restlessness and inability to be…
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Stuff Multiplies
Prompted By Stuff
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I definitely have an issue with stuff magically multiplying.
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Bless the Bread
Prompted By The New Year
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Bless the Bread A new year for many of us means a time to take stock, to make resolutions, or to once again start that illusive diet. But for my son Noah it means the rock, jam-band Phish will be on tour at Madison Square Garden once again for several consecutive nights. A few years…
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KidTV: When the outdoors moved inside
Prompted By TV That Inspired Me
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Growing up, we learned a lot from TV, but we also just had a lot of kid fun with locally produced shows.
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Frances Perkins: A Woman I Admire
Prompted By Women We Admire
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Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor for all twelve years of his administration, was the first female cabinet secretary and a woman you should know and admire.
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My Computer Life, BC and AC
Prompted By Life Before Computers
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