Category Archives: MindFrame

Drivel me this

Posted on July 12, 2010 by onesanevoice

The little condo Husband and I have upstate has a nice swimming pool for the community members to use.  We’ve owned our unit since 2003 and this past weekend I went to the pool for the first time.  I hope … Continue reading →

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It’s the Same Old Song

Posted on June 30, 2010 by onesanevoice

In a university graduation speech this year, President Obama railed about media technology’s growing influence on society as a theft of time and creativity.  In reporting the story, The Economist noted that Obama now joins a long list of prominent citizens warning about … Continue reading →

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All Aboard the Diversity Express

Posted on May 12, 2010 by onesanevoice

I recently attended a Diversity Residency offered by my college.  It was a weekend of exploration into the ways in which the landscape of our country has changed in response to immigration from an ever increasing number of countries.  Be it for … Continue reading →

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Right Click on Industry

Posted on April 17, 2010 by onesanevoice

Events that transpired this past month brought to mind how far removed we are from those eras we romanticize, like the Roaring Twenties and American Graffiti’s fifties.  We view them with a nostalgia that may not even be ours if we’re … Continue reading →

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Last Roar of the Lion

Posted on April 9, 2010 by onesanevoice

There was a song by the band Looking Glass that poured out of every car radio the summer I graduated high school in 1972.  It was called Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) and if you listened to the melody streaming through an … Continue reading →

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The Doonesbury Paradigm

Posted on February 23, 2010 by onesanevoice

I came of age with Doonesbury.  Garry Trudeau’s comic strip debuted in 1970, the year I turned sixteen amid the country’s involvement with the Vietnam War, the sexual revolution, women’s rights, and social activism.  For the first time in the nation’s … Continue reading →

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By the time I got to Woodstock

Posted on February 15, 2010 by onesanevoice

This past weekend was the first annual Woodstock Writers Festival, an event I bought a pass to way back when I was feeling totally healthy and not slinking around with this disgusting whatever it is I have and can’t get … Continue reading →

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To Phoebe, With Love

Posted on January 30, 2010 by onesanevoice

J.D. Salinger died this week.  Friday’s paper said it happened on Wednesday, but he was such a massive recluse it figures he wouldn’t tell anyone for two days.  I imagine he was a difficult guy, maybe depressive or even borderline … Continue reading →

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The next voice you hear

Posted on January 13, 2010 by onesanevoice

One of the side effects of relentless communication is phantom phone calls.  During the recent holiday school break, my friend with younger children at home must have had her hands full.  Two times in the same day my cell rang … Continue reading →

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The Devil Don’t Deal

Posted on December 28, 2009 by onesanevoice

The ironies of life are not wasted on me.  Some I can hardly avoid.  At least one of them haunts me every day when I sit behind the wheel of my car and fasten my seatbelt.  As I reach over … Continue reading →

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