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The Heat is On, and I’m Off
You've gotta love summer to be smiling like that People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. ~Anton Chekhov If Chekhov is to be believed, I must be incredibly...
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Confessions of an Amateur Con Artist
If you don't tell 'em I'm crazy, I won't tell 'em you're a con artist I’m a con artist in that I’m an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn’t. ~John...
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The Demon Horse, Or, Night of the Living Ed
Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear, and man from all sides. ~Russian Proverb The Demon Horse Lives! When I was about 12, I was reading some of my first Stephen King stories. While...
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A Christmas Letter To My 17-Year-Old Self
There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ~Erma Bombeck I was actually bigger than this at 17, but… Dear 17-Year-Old Me: You don’t realize...
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The Beauty of “Beauty and the Beast”
I want adventure in the great, wide somewhere…I want it more than I can tell. ~Belle, “Beauty and the Beast” "The hills are alive...with the sound of talking teapots" My faithful readers know how much...
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5 Days I’d Like To Relive…Over and Over
This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather. ~from “Groundhog Day” Insert your own beaver joke here Since there’s very...
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A Walk on the Furry Side
If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry. ~Dave Barry One anecdote I always seem to save, like the proverbial ace up my sleeve, is how I...
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100 Years (and 15 Minutes) at Fenway Park
You love the Red Sox, but have they ever loved you back? ~from “Fever Pitch” Anybody who knows anything about baseball, especially Red Sox baseball, knows yesterday was a special day: the 100th...
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Summer and I Don’t Get Along
It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do. ~Walter Winchell “It’s summer. We’d better draw the drapes for three months.” Everybody seems to say summer is their favorite season, with...
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Dear Mickey D’s…
For an adult, eating alone at McDonald’s is admitting a kind of defeat. ~Jonathan Carroll Dear McDonald’s: Let me start by introducing myself. I used to be a loyal customer, if you describe loyalty as...
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