Clutter
We’re moving from the East Bay to the Wine Country, one carload at a time. I promised Rosie I would bring all her possessions and not try to distinguish between the useless stuff and the treasures. With a little help from...
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Stop Slandering Crows!
Consider the origins of the word “caucus” in the Oxford Dictionary of English...
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Slightly condensed from an article in the March 1949 American Legion Magazine by Paul Gardner In mid-summer of 1946 Bill Veeck limped into Cleveland to head up a syndicate which had bought out the 6th place Indians....
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Death and Real Estate
Tensions suppressed during the elders’ lifetime often emerge when their estates are...
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Our Times 10/6/21
The Power of the Hed Back in the day, newsroom wisdom had it that approximately 1/4 of readers...
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