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Category Archives: MindFrame
Relevantly Speaking
I read an essay in today’s paper by a woman in her forties looking for employment after years of being out of the work force. The theme of the piece seemed to be resentment that the writer’s work experience doesn’t … Continue reading
The So-Called Past
I won a skirmish with Cablevision last year by threatening to go over to the dark side, i.e. Verizon Fios, but my short-term victory ended a few days ago when I received a letter advising us that our one-year reprieve … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Chase, Cablevision, Claire Danes, FIGMENT, My So-Called Life, Sundance Channel
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After Sam
I got a phone call last night from the married couple who recently bought our family’s business from my brother. The company they now own was founded by my father in the 1970s and became my brother’s after my dad … Continue reading
Horoscope for Taurus: Potential problems are deflected when you are protected by intelligence
FINALLY the astrology lady shows Taurus some love. For quite some time, it has been the practice at our house for me to read the daily horoscopes to Husband at breakfast and point out how underappreciated our shared birth sign … Continue reading
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Tagged astrologist, astrology, GPS, horoscopes, Taurus
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The Price of Miracles
This morning while I ate my bowl of 80 calorie Fiber One, I watched a story on the Today show about an 11-year-old kid at a charity hockey game out in Minnesota. Seems his name was drawn in a halftime … Continue reading
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Tagged drug companies, miracle drugs, side effects
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The Battles of Marwencol
Several years ago, I opened an art magazine and read a feature about an upstate New York man with an astounding story. His name is Mark Hogancamp, and in April of 2000, he was beaten senseless outside a bar in … Continue reading
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Tagged Hogie, Jeff Malmberg, Mark Hogancamp, Marwencol, WWII
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Pieces of May
Last year, our town’s department of roads chose our potholed street as the one most in need of repair out of all the byways in our little community. Back in September, those of us who live on this special block … Continue reading
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Tagged Cayce Zavaglia, Clarence Stein, Henry Wright, Lyons Wier Gallery, Radburn
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Tough Sale
“Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz,” sang Janis Joplin in a kind of rhetorical celestial beg. The words were recorded for her album Pearl three days before her death, and the song stands as a melodic plea for heavenly … Continue reading
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Tagged Bristol Palin, Janis Joplin, Lisa Gherardini, NYPD
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Truth in Advertising
Husband and I were both born under the sign of Taurus, which means we also share a daily horoscope, something I read aloud at breakfast if it seems particularly relevant. If horoscopes can ever be classified as relevant. Today’s words … Continue reading
Silent Company
Writing is by nature a solitary and romanticized venture, making it no wonder that writers who fill the void of isolation with excessive alcohol are given a poetic pass by society at large. That is, until their children get old … Continue reading