Saturday, April 29, 2023

Non-Tweets of the month

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  For the record, none of these "tweets" ever appeared on Twitter. I'm fed up with Musk. Tired of the repeated password exchan...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Admiring student says he wants to become interesting -- like me!

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  (754 words) An admiring student of mine flattered me by saying he wants to become interesting “just like me.” At least I think he was admi...
Friday, March 31, 2023

March (what used to be called) Tweets of the Month

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  Dog (Snickers) on left from back when he was a remote-sized puppy.  No reason for posting. No reason at all. Enjoy your weekend! • I’m so ...
Thursday, March 23, 2023

My letter to Grace seeking grace

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 This is the letter I wrote to the 10-year-old girl, an aspiring writer, after she gave me the only copy of her 22-page handwritten book to ...
Wednesday, March 8, 2023

The perils of parallel parking

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  (578 words) I’ve said before that a father teaching a daughter to drive is like a warden teaching an inmate how to escape. So as of yester...
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

RIP Charlie Appleton: a great newspaperman, an even better man

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  (478 words) Charlie Appleton, the extraordinary newsman, would have frowned at all the adulatory words being used to mourn the passing of ...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

February Tweets of the Month

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  • Legendary escape artist Harry Houdini could extricate himself from a straight jacket in just 4 minutes and 9 seconds. I have to imagine ...