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TO MY DEAR READER, FROM A BLOG

April 18, 2026 by Leave a Comment

Dear reader is plural, but writers are told to focus on just one person, and since I’m the writer around here . . . Hopefully it’s a focus on the right reader? The last thing I need is learning how my posts led a reader astray. From me to you: DO NOT GO ASTRAY. DON’T […]

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GENTLE SUGGESTIONS FOR GOOD TIMES

December 28, 2025 by

Who doesn’t make gentle suggestions? Call it good manners if you know the difference between a request and an order. ‘Would you please help me?’ instead of, ‘Get over here and make yourself useful.’ This happened recently:

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DIFFERENT COUNTRY? DIFFERENT THAN WHAT?

September 8, 2021 by

Every time I read, “We’re a different country now,” I start picking things apart. We’re different because some man or woman got their feelings hurt? Different because someone didn’t get their way and had a meltdown? It sounds different, but what’s really going on? I call it EMPOWERMENT, where normally quiet people discover the sound […]

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PLAY MUSIC ON THE PORCH DAY HEALTH WARNING

August 29, 2020 by

“Take a stroll and listen to people play music on their porch,” they say. Sounds inviting to me. But what ‘they’ don’t say are the dangers of hearing others play music in such an inviting place as a front porch.

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FRENCHMAN FINDS WOMEN OVER 50 INVISIBLE

January 23, 2019 by

    Is this the man all French women under fifty yearn for? I won’t post his name, but a Frenchman decided the world, at least his world, needed to know how he felt about getting older. More specifically this Frenchman told the world that was listening he found women over fifty somewhat unappealing. This […]

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