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November 17, 2021
What fascinated you as a child?
As with most of these “remember when” questions, what fascinated me as a child is a complicated query. Over the course of my childhood, which, for arguments sake, let’s say extends from earliest memories (about age 4) up through getting my driver’s license on my sixteenth birthday, I’ve been fascinated by numerous things. Thing is, …
November 1, 2021
Were you well-behaved or badly-behaved as a child?
Again, when dealing with “as a child” questions, I have to wonder what age range child encompasses? Are we talking about toddler to middle school or up through high school graduation? Also, we should probably define what kind of behavior qualifies as “well” or “bad” considering there’s a range there which is not insignificant. Either …
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October 30, 2021
Do you have any funny or embarrassing Thanksgiving memories?
Thanksgiving has always been an interesting time for me. Most of my adult life has been spent living in a different city than my immediate (birth) family and since Thanksgiving is a family holiday, it was always one of the days I would try and make it home. This worked out well in my personal …
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October 23, 2021
Book Review: The Girls of Atomic City
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan My rating: 3 of 5 stars That Denise Kiernan’s book is well researched is not in question. The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II is …
October 18, 2021
How did you decide to get married?
I had a friend once, guy named Steve, who said to me, when we were discussing women and past relationships, that he’d “marry them all in retrospect…but only in retrospect.” I’m still not quite sure what he meant. Ultimately, I guess he was talking about the fact that we are conditioned to think of marriage …
October 15, 2021
On Catching a Break
Monki has not a great track record when it comes to school attendance. She started her kindergarten* last year just before the pandemic closed everything down, briefly returned in the summer of 2020 until we chose to pull her out for a variety of reasons and our hope was that she’d be able to get …
October 13, 2021
What have you changed your mind about over the years?
The real question is what haven’t I changed my mind about? I mean when I was much younger my tastes were…questionable. Okay, that’s not exactly fair. I was still a kid, but even so, things what I ate and how I ate it are still comedy fodder for family gatherings. But okay, let’s take a …
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October 9, 2021
Do you believe in ghosts? Have you ever encountered one?
You can tell we’re getting near the end of this particular project, week 42 of 52, since the questions are getting a bit more esoteric. When the question comes through, it’s getting more regular that I need to change it out for a variety of reasons and then, looking through the possible their questions, we’re …
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October 7, 2021
Are you good at crafts? What’s something you’ve made and are proud of?
Are you good at crafts? It’s kind of a loaded question since there are a number of different crafts out there in the world and it could be referring to any of them. At the same time, it’s not so much a hard question since I would easily and readily answer with a resounding “no, …
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October 4, 2021
Who made you into you? Who are the people who shaped you?
A few weeks back, my friend Ian Rowland made an interesting post on social media: He posted some 24 pictures of people, from famous to friends, real to imaginary, who had inspired and influenced him to be the person he is today. This got me thinking about my own list of people who would be …
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