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One Molecule And I’m A Rosemary
My mother passed away on a sunny Easter Sunday morning. This is what she wanted. She had seen the priest on Holy Thursday and whispered in his ear that she had chosen the date. She was a good Catholic. The year was 1992. I had the night watch duty to stay by her side and…
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Back To The Beach
I’m sitting at the dining room table in our house in Fort Meyers, FL. It’s probably 90 something outside. We were here before, about two streets over, back in November, 2014 to January 1, 20015. We were pulling a small RV back in those days. This time we own a small cottage which will be…
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Nearly There
The purpose of this short but sweet blog is two-fold. The first is to let you know that we are on our way to our house in Fort Meyers, Florida. It was just as the snow was nearly melted at Rainbow Lake when we decided to see what it was that we bought. It’s going…
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ITSY BITSY MACHINES
The mega international company, IBM, was born in 1911. It was first called Computing-Tabulation-Record Co. Someone, most likely Thomas Watson, after some corporate maneuvers, changed the name to IBM. My father was hired at the flagship company in Endicott, NY in 1936. He always told his sons that if he took the offer of employee…
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Late Autumn is My Least Favorite Season of the Year
There once was a time when one could look down at my hometown of Owego. NY and see nothing but the green leaves of summer. No more. Now you see red brick and white roofs. It’s like a snapshot of the moment the instant the last leaves are gone but weeks remain between those last…
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The Irish in Me
I will arise and go now to Innisfree… -WB Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree I”m drifting off to sleep in the late minutes of March 17. I’m dreaming of Kilkenny, Sligo, Dublin and Galway. What’s happened for me on St. Patrick’s Day? Actually, nothing that involved crowds and singing and rowdy behavior. We cooked…
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The Busker in the Square
[Photo is mine] See the guy? Not the one standing center stage…but the one just beyond him with a microphone and black guitar case at his his feet. Yellow flowers are behind him. To me, he’s the Busker of the Square. He has secured a spot in the plaza in front of the University of…
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Two Churches in Porto
I’m in Porto, Portugal. It’s not Florida and it’s not northern Dorset, and I’m not shoveling 4′ of snow in the Adirondacks. But there is an interesting church across the square facing our apartment. Actually it’s two churches. On the right is the Igerja do Carmo, used by the monks of the Carmo. On the…
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