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Posted in Community, Education, Idiosyncracies, Psychology, School on March 18, 2013 | 1 Comment »
The Ties That Bind (are the Ties That Set Me Free)
Posted in Community, Music, Relationships, School, The Genders on February 24, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Alison Krauss’ song, The Lucky One, describes what in some circles we’d call a commitment-phobic guy. He’s as free as the wind to come and go, doesn’t excel at anything except drifting along, yet is so charming that even though he loves and leaves, he’s “loved by many and hated by none.” She chides that […]
Things I Didn’t Want to Hear
Posted in Cooking/Food & Wine, Emotions/Inner World, Existential, Psychology, Relaxation, Restaurants on January 15, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I had an hour to kill, so I stopped in to grab an appetizer. It was a quiet neighborhood restaurant, dimly but elegantly lit, with particularly nice tiny blue sparkling lights on the ceiling. I’d not been in before, but it offered tapas and Italian food; it was bound to be a fine way to […]
The Postal Clerk Said a Bad Word
Posted in Aging, Anger, Community, Emotions/Inner World, Personal Growth, Post Office, Restaurants, Shops on January 11, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
In the week between Christmas and New Year’s, the week in which the only retail purchases I make are those you can make in the small local grocery store, I ran out of stamps. I held off, though; principles are principles. By January second, I had bills that had to go out. I also had […]
I Wish I Had More to Say About That
Posted in Friendship, Reminiscences, Shops, Writing on August 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Every now and then I encounter a situation that, while in it, I’m thinking of how I’m going to write about it. The incident – either what is happening to me, or what I’m seeing, or what I’m hearing or reading or learning – seems so unique, so interesting, so odd, or just so crazy, […]