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Oh manhole, my manhole

It’s not much of a street, just an old country short cut wedged in between two busy state highways. There’s a large dip about halfway along the road where it runs past an unlikely post office set up in a … Continue reading

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Trials of a One Per-Center

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Loud and 99% Clear

 Katherine and I have little trouble finding things to talk about over dinner or a refreshment at happy hour.  She likes to discuss books and philosophy—vis a vis the steps and missteps along life’s continuum—as well as lunatics she has … Continue reading

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Garbage in, garbage out

Is there anything more shaming than to set out your trash cans in the morning and then to come home at night and see that your cans are still full, but all of the neighbor’s cans have been emptied? In … Continue reading

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A Redskin by any other name

To: The Chief From: Bob in marketing Re: Brilliant branding concept from Bob in marketing  It came to me this morning while walking my dog, Bob In Marketing: a way to get out from under the offensive nickname “Redskins,” but—ta … Continue reading

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Half-moments in time

I saw the two-headed horse again this morning. Two nearly identical white horses, their days of gallop forever gone. They huddled close together at a fence line, one pointed north, the other south. They are there most days, but seldom … Continue reading

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Hornblower in the Prius

In the middle of the oatmeal, a muffled bleeping from the outside world disrupts the calm at the breakfast table.  “What’s that?” he demands in Minuteman alert mode. “Sounds like somebody’s car horn,” she says without care or concern or … Continue reading

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