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I just got an email from my son’s college informing parents that our little darlings have to be out of the dorms by May, 9. That went quickly. Tempis fugit, carpe diem, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it,” Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday.
Honestly, that really sn...
One of the more memorable poems from my high school literature classes was “The Hollow Men” by T. S. Eliot. When I say the poem was memorable, it was really the last stanza that lodged itself in my teenage brain. The poem hauntingly closed:
This is the...
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I get into arguments at work with my Millennial and Zoomer (sigh) coworkers.
Millennials, at least, had some decent music before everything went to heck. Zoomers listen to the stories about how important music used to be and seem to be confused.
“You guys really spent evenings just listening to albums?”
“Well, we didn’t have dates and we didn’t have...
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