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Monday, October 10, 2022

50th High School Reunion--The Kinder, Gentler Reunion

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SHS Class of 71 This past weekend on Saturday night I drove to my 50th High School Reunion. The Stoneham (Massachusetts) High School Class o...
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck, Book 32 of 2022

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This very popular book was published in the late 1970s.  It became a national bestseller in 1984 after the author went on TV and radio talki...
Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Battery Life--Battery Death

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The Red Triangle of Death When I returned from a recent trip, my 2001 Toyota Prius let me know a big expense loomed in my near future.  On b...
Friday, September 30, 2022

Can We See the World Through Someone Else's Eyes?

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  "I want to see the world through your eyes!" says a friend, a lover, a caregiver, a well-meaning person who truly wants the expe...
Saturday, September 24, 2022

Ukraine is My Country--Zelenskyy Showed Me Why

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  President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the  Bad Ass Ukrainian Army  In 1787, Benjamin Franklin urged his colleagues at the Constitutional Conve...
Sunday, September 18, 2022

The Fight for Rationality in 1970s America: The American Skeptics Movement and the Problem of Counter-Culture

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  Dr.Stephen Weldon,  Professor of the History of Science, University of Oklahoma Many people who lived through the 1970s see it as a weird ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

How I Became a Photographer (Twice)--And Why I Don't Own a Camera

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A Crew Chief checking the tail rotor of his Blackhawk helicopter on the  air strip at  Camp Adder, Iraq, at Sunset, November 2009.  Sometime...