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May Your Pumpkins Be Spicy
If you haven’t been inside a store or eatery in the past month or so, you might not realize that it is officially Pumpkin Spice season. If you’re as old as I am you might recall a time when such… Continue reading
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Bygone Kitchen Decor Trends
When I was growing up there were things you used to see in pretty much everyone’s kitchen. Exhibit A is pictured above. These ceramic frogs (and they were always frogs) had oversized open mouths and would be positioned beside the… Continue reading
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Taking a Journey in the YouTube Time Machine
Fellow, dinosaurs, if you want to feel old I saw a screenshot making the rounds this week of a question posed by a young person watching old movies and TV shows who wondered if people really used to commit phone… Continue reading
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That Time I Terrorized an English Teacher (But Not on Purpose)
It is officially spooky season, and so far it’s been a pretty scary week. In the publishing world one of the biggest book distributors (and the very biggest for libraries) Baker & Taylor is going belly up and yet another… Continue reading
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The Bots and the Bees
This year, against popular advice (read: stuff I’ve read on the internet) I didn’t pinch back the blooms on my coleus plants. Toward the end of the summer little buds appear which turn into stalks of little purple flowers. According… Continue reading
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Hope Is A Stack of Color-Coded Index Cards
There are neon colored business cards in various piles in my office, which can only mean one thing—Staples was having a good sale. Well, yes, that and also I’ve been outlining a new novel idea. It’s a somewhat complicated book… Continue reading
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We Have New Neighbors (At Last)
Something that we were starting to think might never happen finally did. Our new next door neighbors (aka Ron’s parents) finally moved in. To recap, last year we were told the house renovation project next door would be done by… Continue reading
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Down the Shore
I’ve recently returned from a long weekend trip down to the Jersey Shore. My sister, brother-in-law and nephew made the trek down from Maine, while my world-traveling parents headed up from whatever their previous port of call was. We hit… Continue reading
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Lunches and Wildlife (sort of) Sightings
My parents are in the midst of a more-than-a-month-long trip to New Jersey and other northern points. Last week I met up with them for a couple of lunches. First, a lunch at a pizzeria owned by a friend of… Continue reading
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Do You Wanna Dance?
Over the weekend my sister texted me a link to this Facebook video, which our cousin had sent to her. In case you don’t feel like watching a video, there’s a screenshot above, which gives you a pretty good idea… Continue reading
Creativity and Contentment 