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On The Level
June 7, 2013. . . just as soon as I finish this level . . . This is how my thirteen-year old son responds whenever I call him to dinner. ...
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The Seventeen-Year Itch
May 21, 2013The nasty bugs were everywhere; an undulating mass of tiny brown nymphs inching up trees and telephone poles and doorways and traffic ...
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Hearing Is Believing
May 2, 2013I hear lots of interesting things from the back seat of the car. For example, it was in the car that I learned that the th...
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1040 Good Buddy
April 15, 2013I owe HOW much? This is the way I usually greet my tax accountant who I see once a year. Sometimes I even say hello before I...
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We Are What We Eat
March 28, 2013Let me just say right off the bat that I love food. The more the better. Especially greasy, salty, spicy foods that are no...
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This is Your Brain on Teenagers
March 7, 2013I have three. For several years I had one. Then, just like that, on a birthday, I had three. I am talking ...
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Time For Love
February 14, 2013Today is Valentine’s Day. Expectations are high. There are cards to sign, poems to write, flowers to buy, candy ...
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Oh, Brother!
January 31, 2013Greetings sports fans! Super Sunday is fast approaching and if you are like me, you probably want to catch up with the latest Su...
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In With the In Crowd
January 15, 2013I am a trendsetter. This is territory with which I am totally unfamiliar. I have never in my life been ahead of the cu...
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The Grace of God
December 24, 2012Not only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends. - Woody Allen I have been thinking a lot lately. As my wi...
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Bad Air Days
December 7, 2012I have been traveling through airports a lot recently. Airline travel is a form of transportation in which passengers are packed...
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Light Noir
November 8, 2012The lights flickered fitfully before dying completely. Like the extinguished gasps of dead men who know too much. Ou...
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Pet Projects
October 12, 2012Clyde is a dog. He could easily be a cat or a rabbit or a fish or a bird or a snake or a pig or hamster or any other animal someon...
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Easting My Dust: Episode II
September 20, 2012“You hit a . . . WHAT?” I like to insert a little TV sitcom drama into conversations with my son. Like Jer...
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Eating My Dust
September 17, 2012My car drove off and left me standing alone in the driveway. On one hand, I was delighted that I didn’t have to drive. ...
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Picture Perfect
August 30, 2012Picture this: A quiet, romantic beach lining a sheltered cove. A fiery red sun suspended low in a vibrant blue sky mot...
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Positively Negative
August 17, 2012After enduring two weeks of television advertising that accompanied Olympic coverage, I am ready for a lobotomy. Fortunate...
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Pretty Darn Good
August 2, 2012I want to be an Olympian. Oh, not just any run-of-the mill, best-in-the-world athlete, mind you. I want to be an NBC Olymp...
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The Day Away
July 27, 2012I can’t sleep. There are just too many lumpy objects under my mattress: painful dilemmas, problems without solutions, worr...
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The Ultimate Driving Machine
June 25, 2012I am seated nervously in the examination room waiting for a consultation with a physician. I have never had cosmetic surge...
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Dreaming of Dad
June 15, 2012In my failure to be recognized as Time Magazine’s Father of the Year, I forgot two very important considerations. One, Tim...
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Investing In Our Future
May 24, 2012My kids have been asking me about money lately. How to get it. How to invest it. How to avoid losing billions. ...
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The Mother of All Days
May 10, 2012The second Sunday in May is upon us. Mother’s Day. The day we honor everything mom. The day my kids and ...
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Titanic Taxes
April 12, 2012In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. - Ben Franklin One hundred years ago, on April 15,...
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We Are What We Keep
March 29, 2012A lot has been written lately about the Collyer brothers who became notorious in New York City during the 1940s for their reclusive ho...