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Agony or Ecstasy?
On a first visit to The Netherlands earlier this year, our plan was to traverse the quaint canals and bridges of Amsterdam, stand in the shadows of Kinderdjyk’s working windmills, and learn more about the country’s wartime era, perhaps through … Continue reading
Posted in culture, food, memories, travel
Tagged Amsterdam, Anton Mauve, Cape Cod, Caravaggio, enthralled, Jozef Israels, Michelangelo, museum, The Netherlands
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Window Addressing
My wife and I just returned from a trip to Boston. On the flight home, we took our seats as usual: she at the window and me in the middle. It was a peaceful journey, save for the rather chatty … Continue reading
Posted in culture, technology, travel
Tagged airline, airplane, aisle seat, flight attendant, middle seat, photophobia, window seat
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Sign Me Up!
I have stubbornly maintained a subscription to Sports Illustrated (SI) – the U.S. weekly (now bi-weekly) magazine about the sporting world – for longer than I can remember. If I assume my SI subscription started in college (the first time … Continue reading
Posted in culture, memories, sports, technology
Tagged Amazon, bank account, bills, Google, Microsoft, money, Netflix, sports illustrated, subscription, thrifty
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Past Cards
Restaurants tend to leave advertising freebies at the host stand or on your table to remember them by. After paying the bill, you might grab a logo’d toothpick or a couple of plastic-wrapped mints on the way out the door. … Continue reading
Posted in America, culture, memories, technology, travel
Tagged advertisement, chic, collectible, mail, post office, postcard, restaurant
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Coffee Breakers
Every now and then I take this blogging habit out onto the road, so to speak. Instead of typing paragraphs from the home office, I’ll liberate my laptop from its cables, hop in the car, and head over to the … Continue reading
Posted in culture, food, memories, technology
Tagged Bluetooth, coffee, FaceTime, peruse, Starbucks, technology, virtual office
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Vowing To Be Different
When my son and his wife were married five years ago, there was a moment in the planning stages where I realized their wedding day would be anything but “traditional”. Credit their beautiful outdoor venue (no church), the “mixed-up” wedding … Continue reading
The Senior Years
A human life has several stages, but exactly how many stages will probably cost you a Google search. Would you believe nine? Pregnancy, infancy, “the toddler years”, childhood, puberty, “the adolescent years”, adulthood, middle age, and “the senior years”. That’s … Continue reading
Posted in America, culture, food, holidays, memories
Tagged daunting, discounts, McDonalds, norman vincent peale, ralph waldo emerson, robert browning, ronald reagan, senior citizen, taco bell, wendy's
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