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November 4, 2009
- I discovered a chain bookstore a few years ago only to find out it is an exercise in the ultimate recycling of literature and all things artsy-fartsy. The Half-Price Bookstore of Westport, Missouri is as unique and eclectic as this oddly intriguing neighborhood in Kansas City.Here's how it works in this Midwest mecca of manuscripts, magazines, music and movies: I bring my unwanted stuff in big ...
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October 17, 2009
- One of my all-time favorite quotes is in French. "Honni soit qui mal y pense."by Victo Hugo or maybe it was Guy de Maupassant. whatever. The point is that at the amazingly ripe age of "over-50", I realize that I really only like that quote because it rolls off my American tongue so nicely. Kind of like my one-time neighbor, Ed Lowe, then-columnist for Newsday, used to enjoy ...
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October 8, 2009
- "Omigawd, Mom! A baby bird just fell in my window well..no, wait, it's a newborn kitten! Mom, I gotta go!"And so begins yet another rescue story from my Mary, the former vet-tech. Fortunately, for the humans in her house, she is actually a music program director at a public radio station in southwestern Kansas.So, it seems there is this fairly-ferrel catta (meaning a well-fed alley cat ...
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September 17, 2009
- I think someone should have guessed it when I was in Speech Class in first grade. I mean, really, I only stuttered on the letter "D'. Duh. d-d-d-Dad-d-d-dy.Some forty years later, Dad is tied with a wide web belt to a cushioned commode-cum-chair in the local hospital after his second stroke in four days. His entire left side, including his usually sharp-edged tongue, seems to have left the ...
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