The summer of 1961, the place—the Federal Justice Building in Connecticut, the courtroom for hearings before the Selective Service hearing officer, me. By refusing to accept the legitimacy of the draft, I received a federal order to appear before a judge who would accept my refusal or punish me with a two-year prison sentence for…
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Suprise Me
An antiwar recreant: from pacifism to militancy
Prompted By Question Authority
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The summer of 1961, the place—the Federal Justice Building in Connecticut, the courtroom for hearings before the Selective Service hearing officer, me. By refusing to accept the legitimacy of the draft, I received a federal order to appear before a judge who would accept my refusal or punish me with a two-year prison sentence for…
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An art exhibition during a pandemic
Prompted By Art and Art Museums
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I was missing those illustrated elevator rides. I was regretting that we wouldn’t be able to go to lunch together after the appointment in the third-floor cafeteria, with its salad bar, its fish baked on the premises, its hardy soups, its many dessert choices.
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What In The Hell Are Taxes!
Prompted By My First Paycheck
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“Excuse me… there seems to be a mistake on my paycheck. A big mistake.”
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Some Random Pandemic Thoughts
Prompted By Pandemic - Pandemonium or Panacea?
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Once the shutdown happened, a friend phoned me asking when I thought we'd be released from it. "June," I replied without hesitation. I so wanted to be wrong, but the data guided me.
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Chocaholic
Prompted By Temptation
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I LOVE chocolate – fudge cake, fudge, frosting, M&Ms, 3 Musketeer Bars. You name it. Each has a particular association for me. As a youngster, my family vacationed in Charlevoix, MI, a lovely resort spot on Lake Michigan. In their downtown was a fudge shop named Murdick’s. We would wander over, watch them make the…
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Arnold Palmer
Prompted By Lemons to Lemonade
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Something about the half lemonade and half tea ... symbolizes how so many of us are making do.
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Blinded by the Light
Prompted By Science
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I must confess that I have never been very interested in science. Conversations on scientific topics tend to make my eyes glaze over. My only good science experience was in first grade. We had a lovely teacher named Miss Garcelon, who had just graduated from teachers college, and we were her first class. She decided, for…
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Liver & Onions
Prompted By What We Ate
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My father appreciated every meal my mother prepared for him as if it were the best meal he'd ever eaten.
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Geek of Geeks
Prompted By Weather
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I perused my small, kid-targeted weather book (maybe even a Golden Book?) ‘til I cracked its spine.
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Feminine list
Prompted By Good Riddance
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