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Let's look at some of my favorite luxuries: a day spent wandering blissfully around one of our favorite spots with my wife, an evening with my kids just talking, or how about a pot of freshly brewed coffee in the morning? Now, many people might say a cruise to the islands, luxury accommodations at a …
You could say that it was an early form of "dorming." A large number of guys share an apartment. In the language of the day, we called it a pad. The living room sometimes looked like a crazy quilt of bedding as people arrived and departed for other locations within a week or two. Going …
 Don't get cultural anthropologists, sociologists, or other social scientists into discussing what a community is while enjoying a few beers. You'll be listening to various views, historical perspectives, and theoretical discussions all night. There will be eager expositions of how the sad, old, and worn term has taken on new meaning in the digital age. Opposing this …
All flyers and email notices from tool companies, even my favorite, go to the Junk Mail folder. They get arbitrarily trashed. Why am I not allowing my favorite form of tool porn into my life? Covid. No, I don't have COVID-19 again, but a few weeks ago, I was looking in the basement shop I …
There was a tiny islet that was my personal airy from which I could view the cove. When things were awful, I could row out and use it as a place to rant noisily. None other than the shorebirds heard me.
Bloganuary writing promptWhat do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time?View all responses Leisure time. Like so many things, the devil is in the details. I don't always separate my world of work from what we might call "downtime." I used to get a big rush out of doing anthropological fieldwork for a project …
Brio toy trains snaked their way around the entire second floor of our house for many years. It was mostly the boys who asked for the add-ons of wooden switches, track, a turntable, cars, and engines, but all four children participated in making and playing with the temporary layouts that snuck through three bedrooms into …
Bloganuary writing promptIf you could make your pet understand one thing, what would it be?View all responses My wife has one issue with our kittens - Keeping them off the dining room table. Shooing, saying "scat," hissing at them; nothing works for long. To be honest, every cat we've had in the house has maintained …
Bloganuary writing promptWrite about your first name: its meaning, significance, etymology, etc. View all responses Brrrrr, it's been cold around here. It's so cold that I've been having trouble getting enough exercise. There's not enough snow to snowshoe on, too much snow to walk on the icy streets, and the malls are boring. My daily …
Bloganuary writing promptWhat makes a good leader?View all responses I learned early not to trust charismatic leadership. It was during my very brief membership in a gang. Luckily, my father sussed early to my involuntary recruitment and moved the family away. But I carried a hunk of two-by-four studded with three penny nails for a …
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