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“They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings, steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king.”…
Every day is normal and every day is insane. That’s the world we live in now—or, at least the one I live in. I imagine that this situation, under trump…
Today the pelicans returned, hundreds of them. I hadn’t seen them for a time and missed them, soaring over the surface of the waves like they do. They’re really quite…
Kakistocracy: A system where leaders lack the skill, ethics, or knowledge to govern well, leading to widespread failure and corruption. It’s been nothing but ugly since trump and his co-conspirators…
“Time’s the thief of memory”― Stephen King, The Gunslinger Let me begin with a very unsurprising confession: my memory is failing. And that’s a frightening fact of aging. It’s only the little…
Back when my kids were young and money was tight, going out to dinner was a rare treat. And when the wife and I decided we needed a break, we…
With the mid-term elections only two months away, I’m feeling both hopeful and increasingly nervous. If we were still dealing with a functioning democracy, I would not be worried at…
In a loud world I grew up in a big city, one that was noisy and always busy. The noise didn’t bother me when I was a kid, even though…
“A sickening moral slum of an administration.” The Washington Post I find myself bouncing between hopelessness and giddiness some days. Maybe most days. Here’s why. Oh you probably don’t need…
I come from a family of collectors. My mother collected Depression glass, those lovely green, sometimes red, dishware made in the thirties. My Aunt Genevieve had an extensive collection of…
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