Archives in Category: Things to Ponder

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Stay or Go

Posted on September 9, 2007

I once lived in the same house for nine years, a real milestone for me. Usually my staying power disappears after two or three years. Then I’m off to find some other place, whether it is across town or across

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Summer’s Over

Posted on September 5, 2007

Monday was Labor Day. In a way, it’s an oxymoron that one should simply relax on Labor Day, but I’m willing to let grammatical issues slide to go with the flow. What strikes me most, however, is that Labor Day

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CURMUDGEON MONDAY – To Be Quiet

Posted on September 3, 2007

Earl and I visited a natural history museum on a recent vacation. We paid our admission and entered the first gallery, which contained a diorama of stampeding bison being chased by Indians to set the mood for what else we

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Vignette

Posted on August 11, 2007

I pulled into the South Shore Health and Racquet Club this morning, intent on getting my daily dose of exercise out of the way as quickly as possible. As I climbed from my car, a cheery voice said, “Hi.”

I

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Today in History

Posted on August 8, 2007

There’s a daily column in the local newspaper called “Today in History,” which lists things that happened on today’s date in other years. For instance, on August 4, 1944, Anne Frank and her family were discovered, after hiding in a

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Talk Grammar to Me

Posted on July 21, 2007

My son Kevin left for his home in Fargo today, but not before we had our usual conversation about the decline in the use of the English language. It was great. But if you hated diagramming sentences in grade school

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My Body the Car

Posted on July 16, 2007

My nails grow like grass, needing to be cut each week. Or last least filed and shaped. It makes me wonder if other peoples’ nails are the same way. It also makes me wonder if nails and hair are related,

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Aging

Posted on July 10, 2007

Aging begins at the moment of birth, but it doesn’t really take solid hold for another fifty or sixty years. By then, one has experienced childhood, the teen years, young adulthood, and middle age. These phases erode the sense of

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Footsteps in the Carpet

Posted on July 9, 2007

My sons — Kevin, Chris, and Keith — have spent the previous week with us, and we’ve partyied hardy. Beer, cookouts, more beer, bonfires, more beer, trips around town, yes — more beer, communing with Earl’s side of the family.

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The View

Posted on July 8, 2007

My office is the only room in our house that doesn’t have a view of the St. Joe River. When we moved in I had intended that this room would be Earl’s office, while I would have one where I

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