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I don't want to get all Number, or Neighbor, of the Beast on you. Let's face it: it's been a long summer and it's been a rough year. As we head towards the fall, things, as one of my sisters, Jill, so aptly (if inelegantly) phrased it...
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on Aug 07 2008, 07:30 AM
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Here in Southeastern Connecticut we are rapidly becoming a state of mind unlike that of the rest of the Land of Steady Habits (perhaps we could secede from Hartford, and become our own state , from the Connecticut River to the border with Rhode Island...
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on Aug 06 2008, 10:28 AM
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Last Tuesday it rained champagne in Norwich. The Governor of the State of CT, The Honorable M. Jodi Rell , was in our fair city, while we were "Norwich in Bloom" no less, to ' deliver a shot in the arm to the regional transportation center...
Posted by rags
on Aug 05 2008, 06:23 AM
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It took me hours to find her, and I'm not sure why I think she was a she, but humor me. For reasons that by the time it was over seemed to be, as one of the doctors explained, 'some people just have bad luck', I spent two nights in the hospital...
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on Aug 04 2008, 06:31 AM
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I made a discovery the other day as people were coming out of a fitness center, and I hope for those who follow women's fashions this is not a news flash. Leotards do NOT have buttons on the chest pockets. As a matter of fact, they don't even...
Posted by rags
on Aug 03 2008, 10:18 AM
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We are amazingly self-contained, all of us species on this planet, we really are. I'm most interested in the human beings as, for the most part, I'm considered to be part of that tribe, and I'm supposed to know something about me after fifty...
Posted by rags
on Aug 02 2008, 11:00 AM
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Where did it go this year? And, just me, or does it happen faster and more rapidly every year? I'm talking about summer, whether you have or take summer vacation or not--today's the first of August and for all intents and purposes, we're talking...
Posted by rags
on Aug 01 2008, 08:33 AM
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My family has convinced themselves I don't like small talk when, really, it's the other way around: small talk doesn't like me, at least not very much. Yesterday afternoon is my most recent example, and it almost got me killed, because I forget...
Posted by rags
on Jul 31 2008, 06:54 AM
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I've worked very hard for the last week or so to not descend into "rant mode" by commenting on the actions and activities of the members of the Norwich City Council (after their 21 July meeting with the discussion and decisions, or lack...
Posted by rags
on Jul 30 2008, 03:42 PM
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"Well my telephone was ringing and they told me it was Chairman Mao. You can tell him anything 'Cause I don't wanna talk to him now. I don't care if it's John Wayne. I just don't wanna talk to him now." Does anyone vote for...
Posted by rags
on Jul 27 2008, 10:15 AM
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My wife and I read two different papers on Sunday. She reads the more hometown of the two, though 'hometown' is a relative expression only because it's published (=assembled) in Norwich while I read the other paper that hers makes look like...
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on Jul 26 2008, 12:32 PM
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I've mentioned that I feed the squirrels from my ground floor office window; I go through about six pounds of peanuts every week. I'm not sure I've trained them so much to come towards the open window as they've trained me to throw peanuts...
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on Jul 25 2008, 04:54 AM
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I won't be especially popular in my house by the dawn's early light, if either my daughter or my wife come across this -- not because I intend to write anything hurtful about either of them (they are 66% of my favorite people on the whole of the...
Posted by rags
on Jul 24 2008, 05:00 AM
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Sometimes, despite our best efforts and promising beginnings, gravity wins. I should bow to that inevitability and move on, and yet, sometimes, I can't. Should it ever come up in conversation ( not that it will, but it could (I suppose) ), the number...
Posted by rags
on Jul 23 2008, 05:03 AM
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A fellow walked by me in a store and offered, 'life's a funny old dog, ain't it?' I'm not sure he was speaking to me, through me or for me, but I've had days where I am bone weary from doing absolutely nothing and am so fuzzy headed...
Posted by rags
on Jul 22 2008, 04:50 AM
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