* Enjoy a repost of a blog I wrote to ring in 2019. The sentiments still apply! I’ve always had an intense love-hate relationship with New Year’s. On the one hand, I love the sense of starting over in a brand new...
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Inspired by and dedicated to Arlette. I'm pretty certain I first heard of an albatross through reading Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", though I don't remember if it was high school or college. I recall the...
I love the trappings of Christmas. Every year I vow to wait until the first day of December to kick off the Christmas season. I like to stack my Pandora with assorted Christmas music stations for all moods and occasions. I...
Yesterday, I was traveling home to Maine from a winter weekend getaway to the beach. It was my fifth trip in 2019 that required airline travel, and the previous 4 trips were as smooth as silk. No bumps on the way down, and no issue with my...
I love stories. I always have. I grew up on Saturday morning cartoons and After School Specials. I mass consumed comic books and Hardy Boys Mysteries. My mother took me to the small local library every couple of weeks in the...
How many of you are old enough to remember the TVs with a dial for the channel and another for the volume, where the outer part of the dial was a knob that could be slipped off its post? There's a story in my family that my father would...
