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Time . . . to go
I’ve subscribed to “Time” magazine for decades. At first, when it was in its heyday before there was instant news, I looked forward to its drop in my mailbox every week. It was contemporary, informative, and succinct.
But that was
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Connections
The NY Times offers a game called “Connections” every morning for free. In other words, you don’t have to subscribe to the paper to play, but I imagine it’s something like a loss leader in grocery stores. You get hooked
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Vacations
I’ve been home from Boston about 24 hours and have begun to assume the mantle of my daily life in Benton Harbor. It’s a comfortable life: we have more money than month; we’re entering the most gorgeous time of the
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FrankenSteinway
You’ve heard of them: the leaders in the piano world. Steinway, Baldwin, Yamaha, Kawai. And, if you got the money, Bosendorfer. You’ve heard of the second tier: Everett, Essex, and Celviano. Maybe others too.
But if you’ve ever heard or
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Black Forest
Last night we had dinner at the Black Forest, a German restaurant about a mile from where M lives. It was obvious that Earl, who is German, was in his glory with potato pancakes, pate, sausages, red cabbage, mashed potatoes,
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Beware
Today is the Ides of March, the day in the ancient Roman calendar that fell on March 15. There are a variety of explanations for the Ides surviving to the twenty-first century, but the most famous is that Julius Caesar
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Statistics
Yesterday’s essay on baseball contained a serious mathematical error. And since baseball is all about statistics, I feel compelled to correct it. I noted that the MLB package Earl and I purchased each season enabled us to watch a game
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Cubes
It’s not a crisis on the level of governmental intervention, but it is a personal antidote to the problems of the world right now. While Hungary, Israel, the United States, and other sovereignties duke it out, I’m studying cubes.
Not
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Scary
Years ago, before the infamous Wall came down, I was invited to visit Berlin. It didn’t take long to decline the invitation, as I was concerned about my safety. I had a vision of being in a café with a
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Three Restaurants
I’ve been to three local restaurants in two days, and the upshot is that my own cooking will be on the menu for the foreseeable future. Eating out just isn’t what it used to be before the pandemic.
Case in
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