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Why I despise car shopping

Tweet I knew it would be a waste of two hours. The salesman would go through the usual interrogation, asking me for contact information, what colors I liked, how many miles I drive a year, my e-mail address and so …

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Gun control: it’s just common sense.

I read this paper on gun control to the Tuesday night Club on April 2, 2013 Propelled by the tragic shootings in Newtown, the rancorous gun

Nuff said….

Fitbit pedometer rocks…except when you lose it

Since surgery in late August, I have been doing a lot of walking and hiking. Liking gadgets, I often wondered how far, how many steps

Rooftop solar energy in the dark days of December

When the days are short and skies cloudy, the output from my 29 rooftop solar panels drops precipitously. So far during this gloomy December, my system has produced just

Thank you, Pan Mass donors!

Thanks to the 85 Pan Mass donors who donated $7,980.18 to Dana Farber Cancer Institute on my behalf. It's been an interesting year given I was diagnosed with

Coping with illness, my way

The day one learns one has cancer, everything changes. That's my sense three months into my battle with prostate cancer. [caption id="attachment_2441" align="alignright" width="225" caption="me, this morning"][/caption] The notion

The Wood Pile

I walked out to the wood pile the other day. It gave me pleasure to gaze at the three cords I had chopped and split over the past

A Hot and Steamy Pan Mass 2012

A hot and steamy Pan Mass Challenge is in the books...192 miles of sweat, hills and exhilaration. I was one of 5,454 riders last weekend, who are projected

Three way video interview over the Internet, thanks Oovoo

This is very cool. A three-way interview with one person in Brussels, another in Toronto and yours truly in West Newbury, Mass. I was using a MacBook

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