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  • December 24, 2020

    Sharing Christmas With Billy

    I will be sharing Christmas With “Billy,” a Setter

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  • March 24, 2020

    Life On Its Own Schedule

    In early February, Coronavirus was a muted, distant soundtrack for the weeks following my father’s fall and broken hip. COVID-19 was still largely foreign, and warnings from Wuhan, China, remained abstract. 

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  • August 17, 2019

    Rediscovering The Connecticut

    Rediscovering The Connecticut – Tours on sailboat harken back to the 1600s.

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  • August 12, 2019

    “Portraying Independence” – Then and Now

    Connecticut’s John Trumbull may be best known for his painting The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. Despite its precise title, what Trumbull created by 1819 (and repeated twice again by 1832) was a carefully crafted record of an event that did not take place exactly as or when he portrayed it. In this painting there…

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  • July 17, 2019

    Another Side of Norman Rockwell

    There is another side to Norman Rockwell. Find it at the Rockwell museum in Stockbridge, Mass.

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  • December 14, 2018

    Six years.

    It has been six years since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School. I mark this anniversary as I have previous anniversaries, by providing a link to a site that provides further links to information about some of the children and adults murdered on Dec. 14, 2012.

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  • October 15, 2018

    Witches’ Night

    Call it Witches’ Night or Halloween, it gives us a lens through which to view the persecution of women.

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  • May 19, 2018

    Hail and Farewell

    Family stories, love, sustain the lives of our family members who have died.

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  • March 1, 2018

    Wisdom And the Crossword Puzzle — Family Vol. 6

    My father does battle six days a week with the NYTimes crossword, edited by Will Shortz.

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  • February 13, 2018

    The 200-Million-Year-Old Footprints Down the Road from my Home

    Looking for 200-million-year-old-footprints? Check out Rocky Hill, Conn.

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