The Fugitive Life of an Airline Employee
When I was a boy, I had an uncle who married a flight attendant—or what we called back then a (forgive me) stewardess....
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04 Apr
General, The Writing Process, What's New
Category Archives: General
General
Here’s what I’m reading — and writing
Dear Friends Who Read and Readers Who Are Friends, To paraphrase a Chinese proverb – or, in some translators’ opinions, a Chinese...
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27 Nov
Every Day, General, Good Reads
REPOST – Black Friday meets Ruby Tuesday…and Wednesday Addams
If you’re reading this, it means you survived Black Friday. You think I’m kidding. I’m not. Black Friday can be terrifying. You don’t...
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02 Aug
General
Let’s hope Cecil the lion was not slaughtered for naught
It was well over 200 years ago now that Jeremy Bentham asked about animals, “The question is not, ‘Can they reason?’ nor ‘Can...
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05 Jul
General, Good Reads
The day the turbulence was inside the plane
Here is today’s profound meaning-of-life question: Is it better to have a serious gastrointestinal meltdown at 35,000 feet in the rear bathroom of...
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28 Jun
General
Does Father really know best? Let’s see.
We all remember “Father Knows Best.” Okay, almost no one does, except for my late father’s friends in South Florida. Actually, even they...
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14 Jun
General
‘Jaws’ turns 40. Time to go for a swim.
Earlier this month I gave a speech on Cape Cod, and I was struck by how much the elbow of the peninsula has...
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31 May
General
Clothes really do make the man
The week before last I was in Manhattan and emerged alone on a Friday night from the subway station in Union Square. It...
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10 May
General, Untold Stories, Vermont
The great moms endure Barney and “Gettysburg”
In November 1993, not quite a week before my wife’s and my daughter was born, my wife made a sacrifice of epic proportions:...
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22 Mar
General, Vermont
Five years on the turd hockey team — and thriving
Not long ago, a reader stopped me on Church Street in Burlington, Vermont and asked, “Do your cats still play turd hockey?” I...
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