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Feb.07.2013
last weekend we spent in Venice and had a wonderful time: the whole city was celebrating the Carnival of Venice. We walked the streets surrounded by grown- ups dressed in elaborated period costumes and covered in masks.
When we got back my daughter asked me why I didn’t write...
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Jul.04.2012
June was a great month for gas prices to tumble in our area. My benchmarker fell below $4.00 a gallon for the first time in several months, dropping over eighty cents in that calendar space. They tell me refineries are back on line and producing, and inventories are up because demand is down, ergo...
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Jun.27.2012
Not long ago (actually October 5, 2010 according to the interview date) I was sitting in my car listening to the radio and stumbled upon an interview by NPR with author Bill Bryson. The interview was about his new book, At Home. You can find the interview HERE.
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Dec.01.2010
I am reading At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson, and I think that about 95% of what makes it so much fun to read is the rising incredulity over what those nut case humans used to do. To wit, we used to think that bathing was really a very bad thing, primarily because it...
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Aug.21.2010
Phillip and I recently made a long car trip. On the way, we listened to the digital recording of A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. Motivated by the realization that he didn't understand anything about the universe, planet Earth, or the conditions that make life as we know it...
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Jan.23.2009
A novelist’s interests lie in the human realm, but unless a writer knows something about the human species from a scientific point of view, it will be hard to get any perspective at all on our humanity. For some of this perspective I recently read Bill Bryson’s book “A Brief History of Everything...
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Oct.18.2008
Yesterday was an unexpectedly lovely, lovely day from start to finish. It started out as a usual Friday: I got up, did some housework, took care of KidThree for a bit, had coffee and a shower. The babies are usually here at 7:30, but when they didn't show up by 7:40, I went to look for my phone (...
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