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When I was in the emergency room last year having busted my elbow, a nurse asked whether I had ever…
Most of us have done it at some point or another - accidentally locked ourselves out of the house. Raymond…
Thanks to the #1970 Club, I've spent the spare moments of the past week immersed in The Female Eunuch and…
Thanks to the #1970 Club, I have a new mog in my life and a new literary best friend in…
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"The pleasure [of motoring] is seeing Nature as I could in no other way see it; my car having ‘tops',…
We've been lucky with the weather in NYC this September. Many bright, warm days The aftermath of the powerful hurricane…
In Meaning Loss, Sanje Ratnavale has written a practical and timely contribution to an important debate that all schools should…
Our friend Carol said we just had to read David Sedaris in the September 9, 2024, New Yorker - “The…
The 2024 harvest moon is September 17th. First a poem courtesy of the Daily Poem at The Paris Review -…
Half a century ago I received an anonymous telephone call from a woman who said she had found my name…
As always, one thing leads to another. This time it's the post from Gert Loveday's Fun With Books that highlights…
OK - so this image is misleading. My photo app tells me this is from last year when - on…