Posted On: November 17, 2023
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Punny or not…No season brings deeper or more colorful reflections than fall.
Fall is a great time to travel—a ‘shoulder season’ when the tourists are usually back home yet the tourism bizzes are still humming…
Posted On: June 15, 2022
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Cities Provide a Bridge to more Bucolic Places.
You don’t need a (-) Covid test to go home again. So head out of—and into—the country.
I know, Covid is so yesterday.
And yet, when traveling…
Posted On: February 12, 2021
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My son captured this shot in a snap with a vintage film camera.
One month ago, BreakAway featured a film photo by my daughter—and pondered the recent popularity of film for ‘kids’ who have grown…
Posted On: December 7, 2019
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Black Friday 2019 enjoyed record sales of $7.4B in digital shopping alone. Cyber Monday: $9.4B, up 19% from 2018. And as for the anticipated shopping total this holiday season? A tidy $740B.
Black Friday—sounds ghoulish,…
Posted On: October 24, 2016
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When this war is over, I as SO going back to hang out in the cemeteries of NOLA. (Photo by Baron Baron.)
It’s been 7 hours and 76 days… And 32 days since my last…
Posted On: August 31, 2016
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One perk for early medical appointments…a sublime sunrise!
“Everything will turn out alright if you can just keep your sense of humor,” my dad used to say, and still does, though I might need to…
Posted On: July 12, 2016
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WAR
During the Vietnam War, Canada welcomed most any American man whose conscience would not allow him to go to war and inflict harm on other people. Brilliant. Compassionate. Generous.
CIVIL WAR
Today, we have…
Posted On: October 27, 2015
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“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life;
now that I am old I know that it is.” ~Oscar Wilde
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.…
Posted On: June 19, 2015
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In a recent NYT column / book review about kids and summer, Julie Lythcott-Haims waxes poetic about lazy, old-school summers, while criticizing current trends to push America’s “luckiest” teenagers toward internships, college-prep classes, sports and…
Posted On: May 25, 2015
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Memorial Day, 2015. The holiday has changed since my youth—when everyone went somewhere, usually to simple cabins and camping to catch real fish before overfishing happened. Nowadays, stores stay open and the city keeps humming.…
