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My family was die-hard New Yorkers. Ahhhhh, concrete! Brick, tall buildings, and views of the urban canyon! But when I was in about sixth grade, my father was lured into taking a job as the maintenance chief for a large suburban residential development on nearby Long Island. The country. No, not really. But to folks …
To keep my phone from becoming a parking lot for apps, I periodically purge the screen and gleefully hit delete on things I've never used or won't use. It came with a bunch of pre-installed junk that I got rid of rapidly. Good riddance. What do I use? Well, obviously the phone, but beyond that, …
I was living in Ottawa, Ontario, in the fall of 1969. A bunch of us had gathered on the corner to discuss some plans for a get-together, and all of a sudden, there was this grey kitten striding towards us. He looked determined, and he looked directly at me. The group grew silent. The kitten …
I describe the years in which I wandered, performed, and did wild things as my time as a Pius Itinerant. It was years afterward that I realized that it was made possible only by the generous gifts and acts of kindness of others. At the time I was doing it, I assumed it was my …
No thanks, not interested. I'm standing pat. Yes, when I worked as an applied anthropologist, I had the capability to turn research into exhibits, programs, presentations, and various projects. I enjoyed it, and for many years I expected to return to it. What an optimist. At some point, I conceded defeat, developed new interests, and …
Hi! I'm Marcus. My sister Sabrina and I have had a new hobby these past few months. It's a version of Hide and Seek. My sister and I get into a fight, and she rips my collar off. We then continue the fight and wind up hiding the collar with the name tag on it. …
My copy cost all of one dollar and twenty-five cents. I bought it in the early 1970's for a political science course I was taking at Northeastern University. It's a slender little paperback, only 98 pages in length. Published in 1905, it was George Washington Plunkitt's practical guide to how politics worked in New York …
Although it's County Fair season in New England I could be persuaded to take a brief vacation in the United Federation of Planets. You know spend some time on the Enterprise, perhaps to meet Kirk, Sulu and the one with the pointy ears. They are a veritable triad representing the values of an enlightened, if …
Tourism of historical events? We can make a hunk of money on this one. You know, run hot air balloon tours over Gettysburg, fill the local hotels with temporal tourists trying to get a good exchange rate on their cash with the local money changers, whatever. However, we'd better plan on a separate commissary service. …
My father was a Merchant Mariner, and the family history, on both sides, is crammed full of merchant mariners; well, OK, on my mother's side there were a few Privateers ( !!Not Pirates!!). In any case, there was a sea of ink embedded in the skin of my family members over the generations. But not …
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