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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Here We Are Now, Entertain Us...

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End of Watch by Stephen King My rating: 3 of 5 stars The completion of this trilogy has cemented my admiration for Stephen King as a sto...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Why Isn't Real Life Good Enough?

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From my Instagram feed today. I was trying to show my wife how the camera works on my phone (it’s a mixed marriage… she’s #iPhone ; I’m...
Saturday, June 18, 2016

Lessons From Rare Photos of Dad

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In the '60s Dad was usually behind the camera in family photos, so I have few photos of him by himself. That's... Lesson on...
Sunday, June 12, 2016

Auto-Tweeters: Delete Your Account

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To everyone who was auto-tweeting on Sunday morning, June 12, 2016: Delete your account. I received hundreds of tweets that morning from b...
Sunday, June 5, 2016

Chasing the Gingerbread Man (Why I Run)

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New Jersey, for all its charms, is the most densely populated state in America. So a favorite running route takes me far away from th...
Saturday, June 4, 2016

Unstructured, Unintentional Genius

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Bettyville by George Hodgman My rating: 3 of 5 stars Last week I was struck, in a negative way, by a piece of advice to writers that I s...
Monday, May 30, 2016

Another Memorial Day With Gatsby

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Every Memorial Day weekend, I find a sort of tender curiosity in trying to repeat the past. This morning's rain in New Jersey made fo...
Friday, May 27, 2016

A Beacon of Hope for Lesser People

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Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons My rating: 5 of 5 stars Looking for a scary read this Memorial Day week...
Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Tonight Seems More Real

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Here's an image of street musicians performing earlier this evening in Albuquerque, NM... Last night, I was in New York, and this...