Coleslaw maker, pizza box assembler. $20 per week. My first job, the summer before I started high school, at Chicken
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The American Experiment turns 246 this year, but doesn’t look a day over 230. Save for the occasional Rhode Island
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A weekly challenge it is to find a suitable topic for this post. The best weeks are writing about Queenie
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Big bang theory or evolution? My Captor is a Big Bang proponent, because she likes to get things done now.
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Old men celebrate Father’s Day like they celebrate their birthdays. There are no expectations for either – to quote my
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Can you hear me OK? Weird things are happening –I’m whispering because I don’t know who is listening. But I
Read moreThe past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.
I wouldn’t go there if I was you. Or, “Myself would not gain entry, if myself were thou-est”, as Shakespeare
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Thank you for your service. The words roll off one’s tongue when we see a military uniform in a store,
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Today is the 1st Deathiversary of our treasured friend David, who we were lucky to have known, if only for
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Can’t we all just get along? My working days were spent at a large company, where we took personality tests
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