Archives in Category: Changing Scene

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FOMO

Posted on September 12, 2024

In the old days, we called them phobias: arachnophobia was fear of spiders; claustrophobia was fear of being trapped in small spaces; agoraphobia was fear of being embarrassed.

But with social networks running amok, there are a multitude of new

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Telephone Anyone?

Posted on September 6, 2024

I grew up in the era when the telephone was the main communication tool. Long before cell phones, texting, emails, tablets, or Dick Tracy watches.

As a teenager, I spent hours on a clunky black phone that sat on the

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To List or Not to List

Posted on September 3, 2024

I accidentally came across this post I wrote in April, 2016 (I’ve been at this since 2004) and found it both interesting and relevant. So I’m re-posting..

“Today’s magazines are heavy on To-Do Lists and light on actual articles that

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Miscellanea

Posted on September 1, 2024

It’s the first day of September, I’m taking stock . . . sort of. Trying to recall blogs I wrote about these past few months without actually reading them all. After all, I’ve written the equivalent of a novella this

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Back to Normal

Posted on August 23, 2024

The DNC has folded its tent like Bedouins in the desert cameling away. And life is as normal as possible in these times.

I turn to my gardens, which didn’t turn out at all like I’d hoped this year. My

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Ugh!

Posted on August 18, 2024

And while we’re on the topic of advertising, our first holiday-inspired catalog arrived yesterday. Make no mistake, it was a Christmas catalog wrapped in the veneer of late summer items for your patio. But once you got to the stapled

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BCYF

Posted on August 16, 2024

Those initials stand for the Berrien County Youth Fair, which is held every August in Berrien Springs, Berrien County, Michigan. I tried to learn more about youth fairs before writing this, but not much came up on Google.

So what

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Getting Old

Posted on August 9, 2024

Just because yesterday was Earl’s birthday – and he is no spring chicken, whatever that means – doesn’t mean this blog is aimed at him. Rather, it’s something I’ve been aware of for a while now.

We are old. I

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Early Fall

Posted on August 7, 2024

I see signs in nature everywhere that it could be an early fall. It isn’t even the middle of August, but my mums are starting to bloom. My lettuce has bitten the dust. The herbs have gone to seed. And

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1440

Posted on August 6, 2024

I don’t know how 1440 came across my radar recently, but it is a free online newsletter that claims to pitch the news without opinions. Every day, subscribers receive an email detailing the essential news of the moment. The news

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