Archives in Category: Changing Scene

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Today

Posted on July 21, 2024

Today is the day President Joe Biden stopped his campaign for re-election to the presidency of the United States. Today is the day I cancelled my standing subscription to The New York Times. And today is the day I finished

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The Last to Know

Posted on July 9, 2024

This morning I was Zooming with my son, Buddy, who casually mentioned that McDonald’s no longer has salads on its menus.

Not that I thought McDonald’s salads were spectacular; but they had been touted by the mega-corporation as its concession

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Yay for the W

Posted on July 7, 2024

This afternoon Earl and I watched the first all-female broadcast for the Cubs as they played the Los Angeles Angels in Wrigley Field. While I thought the three women – Beth Mowins, Elise Menaker, and Taylor McGregor – certainly knew

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Kaminski Farms Meats

Posted on July 2, 2024

This afternoon Earl and I had an adventure. He had read an article recently about the difference between meat one buys at a supermarket and meat one buys directly from a meat farm.

Farm fresh meat has no preservatives, while

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Missing You

Posted on June 21, 2024

Today would have been my Mother’s 106th birthday. She died in 1996, so I’ve had ample time to get over her passing.

What I’m missing is that Mother’s younger sister, Alice, and I would always reminisce about her on her

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Alice

Posted on June 3, 2024

Alice died today. She was 99 years old and doing well when she fell the beginning of April and broke a hip. She was my mother’s younger sister, nineteen when I was born.

Now there is no one left who’s

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Life is Complicated

Posted on May 16, 2024

It’s been almost two weeks since I’ve tried to move money from an investment account at one company to our saving account at another company. In the past, this took only a couple days. However, given current logistics, if we

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Multiples

Posted on May 15, 2024

It’s a sign of contemporary society that the single serving of a food item is readily available. You can buy mashed potatoes, soups, chips, beverages, for one. Also pot pies, Hostess cupcakes, and milk. Yes, the cost is probably higher;

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The Sandbar

Posted on May 8, 2024

In the 23 years we’ve lived in this area, we’d never been to The Sandbar, a local eatery established in 1948. That changed recently when we visited for the first time with friends. They armed us with advice as we

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Tim Foley

Posted on April 24, 2024

Today’s local newspaper reported the death of Tim Foley, local restaurateur and chef extraordinaire, on the front page. There were few specific details as to how he died; rather there were testimonies to how he lived.

According to the paper,

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