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The Old Clock Stopped

Posted on July 30, 2020 by admin

The old clock stopped.   The mirror it had faced for most of its life reflected a blotchy 6:32. It stopped there like the final date on a gravestone.  Its brass pendulum dangled dormant below the face.  It was new on … Continue reading →

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A Hiking Trip

Posted on June 3, 2020 by admin

Hiking alone? At 4,000-something feet? In October?  Honestly?  Stupid, stupid and stupider.   Insight comes at the wrong time, Frank thought, and it hit him that that was insight itself.  He managed to laugh a little, and imagined a smile on … Continue reading →

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Di-a-tomaceous Death

Posted on May 13, 2020 by admin

Tommy Fitzgerald sat stiffly in his truck, toying with a stale Marlboro he kept in reserve in the clean ashtray, a deliberate temptation to prove he didn’t have to smoke anymore. It was the last one and so long to … Continue reading →

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The Last Job That Piqued My Interest

Posted on April 18, 2020 by admin

I won’t kid you but there are downs to the ups of retiring in material comfort.  There is, for example, the tendency to see more frequent, more dire, health issues and if not with you than certainly with people you … Continue reading →

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A Good Friday Baptism

Posted on April 11, 2020 by admin

(This is entirely a true story!) It was a brisk day compared with recent days that early April.  The wind was blowing too, taking with it any warmth that lingered off a body.  Still it was a good Friday, a … Continue reading →

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Apocalypse Now?

Posted on April 2, 2020 by admin

(Before I really begin this, I thought I’d mention something about the title. That, of course, comes from the 1979 movie. Well I saw that movie in Cambridge, Mass, the summer just before my senior year, with Jay Pollard, who … Continue reading →

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Perserverating On Unemployment Rate Deception

Posted on March 23, 2020 by admin

Someone once said the truth will make you free. At least it can make you smarter. In such context I add to my LONG theme that the low unemployment rate touted not just by the current Administration but the last … Continue reading →

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Ader Responds to Trump

Posted on March 19, 2020 by admin

(Well I’m home and trying to make the most of it as the kitchen painter paints the extracted cabinets in the garage and we debate what we’ll do when he needs to reinstall them. That will be a multi-day/week process … Continue reading →

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Part 2: If Only I Had The Cash

Posted on March 18, 2020 by admin

What a treat! A reader of mine from the old days read this latest post and sent me some charts he’d ‘borrowed’ from me, with attribution, for his website. That is flattering. One I referenced in the latest post; it … Continue reading →

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If Only I Had the Cash

Posted on March 16, 2020 by admin

I get emails left and right from people ostensibly in the financial ‘industry’ telling me that the markets are in turmoil due to the coronavirus though they use the term COVID-19 because, I presume, that makes them sound more sophisticated. … Continue reading →

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