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March 09, 2009 05:44 PM EDT --
First impressions are so often wrong, sometimes horribly, but that never discourages observers like me. At least in my case I take pains to correct my initial perceptions, whether wrong or right.
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March 07, 2009 11:21 AM EST --
The Yale Center for British Art in New Haven is currently running a special exhibition titled 'Endless Forms' that brings together Charles Darwin's theories of Evolution and their . . .
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March 03, 2009 11:43 AM EST --
It was time for the continental breakfast in the wrap around L shaped lobby at our motel in Fayettsville SC. There was a soft spoken couple from Montclair NJ who appeared to be in their late . . .
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March 02, 2009 05:06 PM EST --
A gathering of fishing novicesWe met them in separate clusters on the Pier itself or on the adjoining dock. They were all fishing but their qualifications and seriousness were open to . . .
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March 02, 2009 03:38 PM EST --
We met them in separate clusters on the Pier itself or on the adjoining dock. They were all fishing but their qualifications and seriousness were open to question. First we came upon three guys fishing . . .
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March 01, 2009 11:22 PM EST --
There are so many things to do in preparing for a long vacation, so many things to pack, so many possible circumstances to anticipate that inevitably, errors in judgement occur. Take, for example, . . .
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March 01, 2009 04:29 PM EST --
It was a most unlikely coming together that made sense only in retrospect. My wife and I were seated on a stone wall that separated the large indoor and outdoor LEGO display area at Downtown Disney from . . .
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February 28, 2009 04:03 PM EST --
What could an innocent encounter at a Cracker Barrel Restaurant have in common with a visit to an exotic, Black Market Mineral store? Both took place on the same February day along Bronson Memorial Highway . . .
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January 29, 2009 11:37 AM EST --
In John Steinbeck's novel 'The Winter of our Discontents' the story-line revolves around a young man, Ethan Allen Hawley who struggles to maintain his honesty and integrity in a 1960s . . .
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January 27, 2009 12:21 PM EST --
There are not too many certainties regarding the credit markets and the financial system in the U.S., both of which have been spiraling downward in recent months. One thing does appear definite. We are . . .
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January 25, 2009 04:50 PM EST --
We are about to embark on another military expedition, this time in Afghanistan, that may once have made sense but no longer does. Sometimes it helps to communicate the essence of a matter . . .
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January 24, 2009 11:56 AM EST --
Now that it has been widely acknowledged that the global economy is contracting sharply and that the end point is not yet in sight, investors in all manner of assets and even plain vanilla bank savers . . .
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January 24, 2009 10:31 AM EST --
Remember this one: "First you say you do and then you don't"
My mind is laced with songs like that from the long distant past. There was another old ditty sung by Jimmy Durante in profile, . . .
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January 20, 2009 09:24 PM EST --
The audience in and around the Mall in Washington and throughout the nation as well as many of those watching from around the world were looking forward to a capstone inaugural speech by Barack Obama . . .
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January 18, 2009 04:33 PM EST --
My last visit to Farmington Health Center in Connecticut resulted in two entirely unexpected encounters, one from out of my past and the other entailed getting to know someone in the process of qualifying . . .
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January 17, 2009 11:27 AM EST --
History is replete with instances when a desperate, a dejected people with a shared sense of prolonged hopelessness were aroused, seemingly out of nowhere to turn a corner and thereby find themselves . . .
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January 09, 2009 11:30 AM EST --
All the efforts of government in the form of zero interest rates, bailouts, forgiveness of debt, and fiscal stimulus are intended to return our economy to what it was like before the CRASH . In order . . .
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January 03, 2009 05:51 PM EST --
There is one wetland area within Hammonasset State Park where they have yet to depart for more southern climes. The Great Salt Marsh at Meigs Point is currently home to at least nine of them. . . .
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December 31, 2008 10:32 AM EST --
A new film 'Revolutionary Road' adapted from the penetrating novel by Richard Yates and directed by Sam Mendes, with Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, in which a young . . .
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December 29, 2008 08:27 AM EST --
Sometimes perfect strangers are like brothers under the skin.
Both couples, we and they, met at Hammonasset Beach State Park in CT. They were a middle aged couple who had arrived on bikes . . .
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