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Sarasota’s blues
It's a bad time for Sarasota Spring. She's the 36-year-old private investigator featured in the novel I've been working on [...]
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Cometh the blue people
Some old TV hair color commercial came with the line, "Only your hairdresser knows for sure." I was not much [...]
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Go to it, death-proofers
Donald Trump is out, or nearly. Happy now? I am: I hated his hair color choices. But here's a word [...]
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Love in vain?
I always liked Valentine's Day. I liked it even though I knew it was a marketing gimmick cooked up to [...]
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Never an empty bed
My father flew B-17 bombers over occupied Europe in World War II. The planes, which took off from primitive airfields [...]
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The Darth Vader syndrome
My friend Mary is in a funk. She thinks the world is coming to an end because of COVID-19. She [...]
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Good-bye Analog Road
It's no surprise to me that the coronavirus is about to make the virtual side of digital life into the [...]
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ERs where missile were
I have done a lot of thinking lately. Usually I lack the free time. Now free time is all time. [...]
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Shameless sheep
The expression "beware a wolf in sheep's clothing" goes back millennia. The ancient Greek slave and storyteller Aesop probably used [...]
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Talking sense to judgment
An elite British boarding school that costs your parents £40,00 a year is too often posh in name only. The [...]