Category Archives: All Things Considered

Can’t Hurt to Ask

We just returned from a few days upstate at the little getaway condo I told you about in The Nature of the Beast.  Before I go on, thank you to my friend and neighbor, who happens to look like Dr. Cuddy … Continue reading

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It’s the Geography, Stupid

Daughter came over yesterday to be my left hand because that’s the one that’s injured since Indiana Wants Me.  I had to miss the last week of school and not take my proficiency finals because I only had one hand that … Continue reading

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Democratic Primary: Look Book or Name Game

This is shaping up to be a long and interesting presidential campaign year what with history being made right off the bat.  The first black candidate, the first woman candidate, and everyone bending over backward to say ‘not that there’s … Continue reading

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Hickory Dickory Dead

One evening last week as I was setting the table, I noticed a couple of caraway seeds had fallen from the counter top into the silverware drawer next to the spoons.  I discarded them and moved the bread further away.  … Continue reading

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Extra Super Sunday

Back in January, Husband was given complimentary tickets to a private showing down in the Village for an independent film with an original premise.  The film is called Praying with Lior, and it’s about a charismatic youngster with Down Syndrome … Continue reading

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Still Funny After All These Years

It’s the middle of January and I’m late passing these on but now that you’re settled in, here are George Carlin’s New Rules for 2008.  They were sent to me by correspondent Blondie and I’ve since seen them attributed to other … Continue reading

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Fourth and Goal

This weekend was classic football weather with that crystal bite in the air and magenta leaves in transit and the distant thump of a high school marching band.  We live within earshot of a high school, the one Daughter attended, … Continue reading

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But Then I’d Have to Kill You

There’s a teacher at my school who I sometimes chat with between classes while she has a smoke in the parking lot.  I normally avoid people while they’re smoking because I’m a long-ago reformed smoker whose father recently died of … Continue reading

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Those old time Billboard blues

When I was a teenager and had occasion to leave my room and join the rest of the household, my parents would sometimes have the radio on or a record playing.  Invariably, what would hit my ears would be Tony … Continue reading

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Baby Steps

On October 11, 2006 the first article appeared in this spot making today my blog’s first birthday.  What began as a suggestion by Husband that was encouraged by Daughter became a resurrection of a newspaper column I used to write … Continue reading

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