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Perf-ection
Earl and I are paper people. He owned a printing company for years, mostly before online publishing came to prominence. And I was a freelance writer whose clients wanted someone to make their words read well.
All of this is
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I Just Wanted the Price
I’m starting to plan my Christmas Day dinner; actually it’s already planned and most of it is also bought. But I wanted to know the price on a type of beef without waiting for the weekly ad supplement to our
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Oops!
I can’t believe it’s six at night, and I completely forgot about blogging. That doesn’t happen very often. I guess my hair appointment was more important.
That said, if my blog doesn’t post at Noon each day there’s something going
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1440
I don’t remember how I came across the free online news feed called “1440,” but I’ve subscribed for a couple months now.
I like the logic behind the name: that the printing press was invented around the year 1440 (although
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Cleaning Lady
Have I mentioned that my cleaning lady, the one I’d had for seven years, quit in an email five weeks ago? Since this coincided with my November sabbatical from daily blogging, I probably haven’t. Which is a good thing, because
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Citibank
While I was in Chicago last weekend, I lost my credit card, the one I use for almost everything. Like the hotel. And the special spectator area with places to sit and buffets of food. And the fancy coffee.
At
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FOMO
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?
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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Life Is Complicated
Historian Heather Cox Richardson wrote yesterday that the White House is trying to combat junk fees, excessive paperwork, hold times, and other ways companies “deliberately design processes to be burdensome in order to deter people from getting a refund or
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Three for Two
Fifteen years ago, when we moved to our current home, we bought three brand new televisions and had them installed. Given there are only two people in our family it might seem like overkill.
Yesterday, the one television we never
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