Why trolls see the glass as half-full
Last month, after an intense study of 200 young adults roughly 18 and 19 years old, researchers learned the following: Put a pretty...
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O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum, You really are a cat toy
At some point this week, perhaps even today, I will stand a live fir tree in the bay window in my living room,...
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Feed a Cold, Starve a Pfever
Okay, ice skating fans and men of a certain age who had serious boyhood crushes on Peggy Fleming: How many of you immediately...
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This Friday, Veterans Deserve a Salute
Among the papers my brother and I brought back from Florida after our father died this summer was his honorable discharge from the...
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Goodreads 2011 Choice Awards and The Night Strangers
So, THIS was a pleasant surprise: THE NIGHT STRANGERS is a finalist in the Horror Category of Goodreads 2011 Choice Awards. I must...
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Night of the living deadhead
Halloween is fast approaching, a holiday that is all about good taste, decorum, and style. And nothing says elegance more than a $35...
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Resurrecting My Childhood Ghosts
It’s a paperback that cost 45 cents when it was brand new. It’s a little more squat and wide than a traditional mass...
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So grateful to occupy Vermont
Earlier this month I was at the single digit A gates at Washington’s Dulles Airport late on a Saturday afternoon. There are few...
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Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
I’ve now had my first fire in the woodstove, which means the Lincoln Volunteer Fire Company is on high alert. Okay, that’s an exaggeration....
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“It will invade your world.”
That headline is a line from Nanore Barsoumian’s review of “The Night Strangers.” I love it. But there have been other terrific lines...
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