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You Aren’t Pole-Dancing Enough in Your Living Room
“Having trouble getting married? Maybe you aren’t doing enough pole dancing in your living room.” Wall Street Journal, “In Japan, ‘Marriage Hunting’ May Require the Right Lair.” Back in my bachelor days I sometimes despaired […]
Jack Garner, Parsley Farmer
Jack Garner gazed out over the farm that had been in his family for three generations and let out a sigh of exasperation. He looked down the rows of curly leaf parsley, often used as […]
Warning Signs You May Be Experiencing Kronic Incessant Disorder Syndrome (K.I.D.S.)
Just as our nation is grappling with the Coronavirus pandemic, it appears there is another crisis rapidly spreading throughout the world. Over the past 50 years, throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia, there has been […]
Don’t Call Me Bambi
A deer crashed into a liquor store in Weymouth, Mass., breaking a $205 limited edition bottle of beer, cocktail glasses and high-end liquors, causing damage estimated at $3,000 before sprinting out the front door. The Boston […]
More Family History
One of my most colorful ancestral relatives was my mother’s fifth cousin twice removed, Hildi Heulenschrei, the opera singer. Hildi was born plain Hildegard Schmidt in some little Dorf in Bavaria, around 1890. Nobody knows […]