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I love my few subscriptions to online news services—call them the papers, if you will—but I haven't touched newsprint for a year or two. What I don't like are the required subscriptions for the graphics packages that I need for image manipulation and typography. You bought the darn program back in the day. Now, you …
Thinking about favorite albums and performers this morning led me down some twisty corridors of memory. I wound up in a seldom-visited cul de sac on Boston's Beacon Hill. Another folksinger living in the next building was in talks with a major label. Rumors of an album were floated. Whenever something important like this happened in …
I've baked a couple of family seasonal specialties for years. The first is my Christmas-time rum-soaked fruitcakes, and the second is my replication of my Hungarian Grandmother's Poppyseed bread.The fruitcake is not your typical brick of hard fruitcake with a brick-like interior and an exterior crust of mold. It's rum-soaked, rich in moist fruit, and …
They are taking students' phones away from them! Nothing quite as bad has happened since my classmates, and I in New York were shaken down for our pocket knives, and no, I don't mean big mean tactical lockbacks, switchblades, or flick opens. They were confiscating our non-lockable two-inch pocket knives. Someone had informed them that …
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Scrapple. I've never noticed it in the supermarkets here in New England, and I am greatly relieved that it doesn't seem to get "exported" to my chosen area of the country. Only a few words in the English language can make me shudder. Cribbage is one, and Scrapple is another. In a nightmare, I walked …
You need to be a bit leery of those too eager to assume leadership. Some of the best leaders are aghast at the title. They never wanted to lead, don't feel comfortable leading, and need to sidle up to the responsibilities involved - carefully. The eager ones have watched movies, read books, and played war …
When I was on the road and working as a folksinger, my favorite word was freebie. A freebie is something for free. In the counter-cultural world of the Beats, Bohemians, and Folkies, I associated with it was a frequent vocabulary item. Many of us didn't have much bread (money), and a freebie coffee or meal was always …
Professional athletics get little attention from me outside of martial arts. If someone mentions a sports hero, I smile vaguely and try to say something encouraging. Now, a nice Kendo match, two Judo pros going at it, or watching an Iado embu( a demonstration of Japanese swordsmanship) makes me focus. Many people are interested in …
I have to increase the stock of items I have depleted. And I have begun planning for one of three new ship portraits I have in the offing. The shop is a mess. But a creative one.
Sabrina: What's that smell? Sniff… (reaction) Oh, S@#t!!!! It didn't use the litter box!
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