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Archive for July, 2009

During an online conversation with a friend who wishes to remain anonymous, the following conversation occurred. We had been discussing the great WW2 columnist Ernie Pyle, which led to a discussion about Washington, D.C. (not sure how it got to D.C….) and I commented on how the first time I went there I said I [...]

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Lots of people collect lots of different things, but almost everyone has a collection of t-shirts (or tee-shirts) whether they mean to or not. I have a specific drawer for t-shirts. The drawer is never organized but rather one splattered array of colors and memories from how or why I acquired that specific shirt. (Oddly [...]

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Weddings in Two Parts

To quote Captain Jack Sparrow: “I love weddings! Drinks all around!” I love weddings too, but maybe not for the same reasons my dear friend Jack does.
Part 1: I think weddings are pleasurable dichotomies of uniformity and uniqueness; all weddings are inherently the same, and all weddings are inherently different.
I’ve always received a [...]

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