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Commodified Attention
I’ve been thinking a lot about Facebook. I had just posted my last essay “That’s HOT” when it went down this week. Only one “like” and no comments? I kept trying to refresh, and wondered for a second,...
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Overdose
When is too much of a good thing bad for you? How does passion turn into obsession? It turns out the Pumpkin is a pretty natural soccer player. I drove him to his soccer game over the weekend and...
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A Cold Day in TX
I was going to write about refrigerators… and washing machines. About how my Nana didn’t want to give up her ice box, but she finally relented. When I was young, she would send me to the store to buy...
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Fast and Hard
I’ve been thinking about New Zealand lately. Bob mentioned something in passing that is now stuck in my brain like a never ending podcast; do you know how many COVID deaths, how many TOTAL people have...
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Glamp Camp
Ever want to just get away from it all? Our friends Yoko and Rick – who happen to be retired public health officials- picked us up last weekend for a little trip back to nature. Only this campsite was...
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Unmasked
As we were driving home from Florida yesterday, we heard on the news that bars would no longer be serving alcoholic drinks. One night we had pulled our golf cart up to an outside bar on Santa Rosa...
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A Transformative Culture
Calls for racial justice and defunding of the police are a constant across our country. Old, arthritic knees of legislators knelt on marble floors in our Capitol for nearly nine minutes yesterday....
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The Center of the Universe
Last evening in America’s Capitol, peaceful protesters were tear gassed so that our toddler-in-chief could take a photo-op in front of a church, holding a Bible. Was Mr T concerned about police...
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Essentially Speaking
What makes a worker essential today? Certainly nurses, and Happy National Nurses Day, are critical to our healthcare system, and doctors and therapists and pharmacists. So are grocery store workers,...
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Wax and Wane
Like the phases of the moon, our country has slowly moved from embracing conservative, anti- (big)-government ideology toward a more socialist democracy, and back again. In the 18th Century, we threw...
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Liberate US From the Don
This morning Mr T has been rapid-fire Tweeting: “Liberate Michigan,” Liberate Minnesota,” “Liberate Virginia!” He must be sweating this Covid crisis out; not being able to golf or visit his gilded...
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Hitting a Wall
My kitchen looks like a sweatshop. There’s the ironing board facing you across from the refrigerator, with its proud Rowenta iron sitting center stage. And a Singer sewing machine has replaced the...
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“I’m NOT a Doctor”
But Mr T plays one on TV. He says we should probably wear masks, but he won’t. Why? Because hey, kings and dictators don’t wear masks behind a “resolute desk.” This guy with the bad spray tan is too...
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Prepping
The first case of Coronavirus is in New York. It’s in Florida. More than 3,000 have died around the world so far because of some bat droppings. I guess it’s time to start Doomsday Prepping; what would...
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Second Chances
I’m all for second chances. You need to warmup your arm before you serve a tennis ball. Or try making that cake again when the first one won’t come out of the pan. But we need to have a talk with Ohio;...
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In Other Health News
Stop the presses! You know how you have to initial a HIPAA form every time you go to a doctor’s office, or a hospital, or a car wash? We Americans like to think our medical records are sacrosanct, we...
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Cake and Contempt
I was talking with Great Grandma Ada this morning and I mentioned that disrespect, or its evil cousin “contempt,” is a most toxic part of some marriages. I figured this marriage counselor had seen her...
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OHHH-klahoma!
“Where the wind comes sweepin down the plain.” That Rogers and Hammerstein musical was my first taste of show biz. I was new to public school and new to ninth grade, so naturally I tried out for the...
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Where We Park
Yesterday, Bob attended a zoning board meeting. Over the years, I’ve attended my fair share of borough council, school board, and zoning meetings as a reporter, taking copious notes and trying hard not...
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Draft Dodgers
This was not your burn-your-bra-along-with-your-draft-card kind of weekend, then head for Canada. No. This was the biggest single thing to hit Nashville since the advent of Country Music Awards. The...
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