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…so maybe next time I clean up I’ll find a trout…..

I got a couple of emails questioning whether yesterday’s blog was really true. As if I could have made up that list of what I found on my desk. As if I would actually WANT to make it up. I will say that that no one who knows me well expressed the slightest doubt that […]

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…and a Partridge in a Pear Tree

Although my office looks—and is—completely disorganized, I pride myself on being able to immediately find something I need. But my powers of detection would be severely tested if I tried locating anything on my desk right now. So today I bit the bullet and decided to clear it off. I bet some of you are […]

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Un-Conventional Behavior

When I was ten, I developed my first major crush. Unlike friends who were just discovering teenage heartthrobs like Frankie Avalon and Fabian, I fell in love with an older man. His name was John F. Kennedy. I filled scrapbooks with his picture, and newspaper articles about him and his family, reading everything I could […]

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Missed Opportunities: Then and Now

Thousands of Yale undergraduates developed a special appreciation for architecture because of one man: Professor Vincent Scully, who for 61 years taught a wildly popular course on the History of Architecture. He was a charismatic lecturer who made his subject matter come alive so brilliantly that he received a standing ovation at the end of […]

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Bargain Shopping

I often hear parents complain about kids who seem to think the definition of infinity is the balance in their parents’ checkbook. I’ve never had that issue with my kids, both of whom are ridiculously thrifty—possibly because they’ve been trained by the master: not me; their father. (I will admit he also gave me an […]

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Reach out and Touch … Your Mom

Since I’m out of town, I planned to write this blog on my laptop but technology hates me. And the feeling is mutual. I could not connect the laptop to the internet so I’m forced to use the computer in the hotel lobby and I’m not sure how coherent this blog will be. And my […]