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You Are So Very Welcome

Ellen Berliner offered the caller a ready excuse that her system was incredibly slow that morning. What with the holiday coming up and Covid going around there were simply an awful lot of calls coming in. It rolled off her … Continue reading

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Some Things Never Change

(I’ve been less than productive with my fiction and have taken to typing at random hoping I can beat the chimp also typing a random to recreate the Complete Works of Shakespeare. I read somewhere that the chimp doing so … Continue reading

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A Lesson for the Inner Child

Well, I did it; I bought a Rolex. I did it after coveting one, toying with the idea, for decades. It’s just a watch albeit a very expensive one, an unneeded acquisition especially just a few weeks after buying a … Continue reading

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Forsooth Sayer

Harry made suggestive gestures around the voluptuous crystal ball. Eyes rolled back into his head, he chanted words that could have been Arabic, he even invoked Allah, with a smattering of Hebrew he recalled from a Bar Mitzvah, but most … Continue reading

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Metal Detectorists: The Thrill Is In The Discovery

← Pic Of The Day #1541 From Dan Woog’s column, https://06880danwoog.com/2021/07/08/metal-detectorists-the-thrill-is-in-the-discovery/ Posted on July 8, 2021 | 4 Comments Just when I think I’ve heard everything about Westport history, I learn something new. The other day, it was about a Confederate presence here in … Continue reading

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You’re Using Too Much Water

(This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual Pippas, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.) “You’re using too much water.” “What?” “I … Continue reading

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My swan song as a strategist?

From the Wall Street Journal, Nov 30 2018, under the title, Bond Indexes Bend Under Weight of Treasury Debt: “The Treasury Department projected to run trillion-dollar deficits for the foreseeable future. As issuance increases, funds that use the Bloomberg Barclays … Continue reading

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Curmudgeon Little Ones The Better Version Scarecrow & Dorothy Urge To Go In Counter A Serious Lucky Streak The Devil’s Disciple Magic Mushrooms Coaxial This Island Hopping A Virtual Life Oskar Forsooth Sayer Hold That Head High Mistaken Identities From … Continue reading

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Curmudgeon

There’s a stage in the life of a man, when in the middle of a fall afternoon, likely a Friday, he’s in his yard raking leaves maybe, or getting the mail. He’s not wearing a stretched-out cardigan, one with those … Continue reading

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Little Ones

The little children exchanged the mug each holding it with both hands to the count of two, just long enough to get their hands warm. They so wanted to taste its contents, rich chocolate, sweet, forbiddingly sweet, but they needed … Continue reading

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