From the monthly archives:
I witnessed a mini-scandal recently when a recently-divorced 34 year old colleague brought his new 23 year old girlfriend to an event. He thought it was fine- they were both adults and she had just graduated from university. Others disagreed, arguing that it was a clear violation of the undisputed rule of inter-age dating, the [...]
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It’s fortunate that I had the good sense to marry an engineer. If I hadn’t, I would almost certainly be broke, homeless, and unable to calculate a bending moment. Perhaps her greatest contribution to my life has been her religious insistence on seeing a full budget prior to my starting any major renovation project. She’s [...]
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I’m well accustomed to bureaucratic doublespeak- competencies, synergies, stakeholders, and so forth. It’s almost comforting to hear this nonsense coming from our officials. If a government worker actually responded to a question in a coherent manner I’d assume that he or she was either on the take or about to go nuts with a deer [...]
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Our city currently has a water use ban in place- no watering of lawns or flowers, no car washing, and so forth. We’ve had a dry few months and water levels are low, so it’s a move that makes a lot of sense, even if it means that my opium poppies pansies are dying and [...]
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Could you survive without your cellphone?
If you had asked me this one year ago, I would have answered with a resounding “No!”. My addiction to mobile technology ran deep. I was a
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