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Friday, November 22, 2024

9/11 was the closest thing my generation has experienced to the JFK assassination

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Today marks 61 years since President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas. Every year on this day I go back and read old news accou...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

BLOG RERUN: One unfortunate side effect of full-time work is feeling disconnected from the day-to-day reality of your home

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True to form, the AI Blog Post Image Generator created this surrealistic tableau when I prompted it with the phrase "busy household.&qu...
Monday, November 18, 2024

The chick magnet that was my 1984 velcro Men at Work wallet

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  My first wallet was very much like the one pictured above: an all-fabric, velcro-closing affair with the logo of the Australian band Men a...
Friday, November 15, 2024

Smaller pets are eternally babies, even when they're getting on in years

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  The feline in the photo above is Ginny, the oldest of our three cats and also  –  by a considerable margin  –  the smallest in stature. Gi...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

That smell when you first turn on the heat in your house

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We've reached the point on the calendar (at least here in Northeast Ohio) when our long-dormant furnaces have come to life in order to k...
Monday, November 11, 2024

On this Veterans Day, I hope you'll take a minute to read about my Uncle Dan

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Several weeks ago we lost my Uncle Dan. He was 99 years old and the last of many aunts and uncles from both sides of our family. His was, by...
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Friday, November 8, 2024

One good thing about social media is that you can find your tribe(s) more easily than ever

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For all the bad that social media has wrought in our society  –   and man, there is a lot of it  –  one area in which it seems to have fulfi...