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There’s something in the air. Some cosmic concentration that requires me to look more closely at my life. Cleaning out the garage as my old friend Wordman would say. Do you feel it? Do you
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The weather like so much else about our lives can be so unpredictable. Personally, I have rather a love-hate relationship with unpredictability. I hate the ‘not knowing’ characteristic of it because
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The thing about having and showing so much promise is that at some point in time we have to front up with the goods. Is that a truism or what?
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I started reading Thomas Hardy’s ‘Tess of the D’Ubervilles’ (A Pure Woman) again last night. I’ve read it before so you’d think that knowing the end would dissuade me from reading it again. But it doesn’t. It’s an instructive piece and I
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The wind is playing havoc with hair, children’s moods and my cat Molly. She’s turned into a minx. Let me clarify. Instead of being a mild-mannered cat with decorum to boot, she’s behaving as if she were a kitten half her age (3) and broken a piece of blue pottery that I had
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