I’ve been humming this to “Goodbye Picadilly, Farewell Leicester Square, the chorus of “It’s a long way to Tipperary,” a World War I marching song that my grandmother used to…
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Twelve hours was all it took for my cat, Mittens, to discover how much she loved being rolled from room to room on my rollator, her new favorite perch. Apart…
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Here I am with my annual reminder about how unusual American Thanksgiving is as a national meal. As nations were created from the eighteenth century on, all kinds of readily…
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