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Happy Birthday
Today would have been my dad's 83rd birthday. I think. It's difficult to know one's father's age, when one doesn't even acknowledge one's own... Yesterday would have been Larry's mother's birthday, a woman that I never got to meet. She died when he was 21. What...
It’s about Time
You know the holiday gift season is approaching when...your mailbox is stuffed with catalogues and the papers are filled with ads. Let me be the first to say: Merry Charge Card Season to you! Yesterday's papers - three are delivered before dawn to our door -...
Not once or twice
It’s said that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, but let this post be the amendment. Lightning most definitely struck and someone recorded the event on film; lightning almost struck another time, when I lost my head and agreed to ride the cable car to...
by assignment, 200 self-revelatory words
Persistent Ardent Thoughtful Risk-taking Integrity-true Content Interested and interesting Artful Loving Out-going Understanding Intelligent Singer of harmony Empathetic Justice-seeking Action-oriented Colorful Kind Sense of humor aloud (allowed)...
Halloween Costume of Orange
The Devil’s Advocate Post
In the first edition of the Daily News, this reporter has covered the Seven Deadly Sins: we've got Greed in the Business Section Sloth in the Leisure Section Gluttony in the Restaurant Reviews Lust in the Movie Reviews Envy in the Gossip Column Pride in the...
A walk in the park plot twist
Life is not a simple walk in the park, is it? There's all those people and opinions plotting the demise of happiness from the vagary of their human nature. While "a walk in the park" is an idiom, people can just be idiots. As you know from my tag line, I write when I...
There’s Always an Upside
It’s easy to understand UP, meaning toward sky and heaven or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP? At a meeting, do you listen UP when a topic comes UP - and never, never cut UP? When should we speak UP? You get written UP as...
No good deed goes unpunished
I first heard this statement in the summer of 1997. A wise mentor gave it voice after I'd written a ground-breaking grant and determined to shepherd its project to fruition. Naive person that I was, I learned its lesson hard. Eight years later I was diagnosed with...
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