Tag: family
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AI Could Never Feel Its Ancestor’s Tears
May 14, 2026 Things That AI Cannot Do – #11 in a series It’s another rainy and cold day in May. It’s been that kind of Spring. I’m thankful that the lilacs are taking their time to open into full bloom. They are the surest sign that spring is in full swing, and I want…
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Things AI Cannot Do – part three
December 13, 2025 AI Could Never Sort Laundry: well not properly anyway I don’t imagine that AI will ever be tasked with sorting through the season’s change of clothes. How could it decide which items are good enough to be worn again for another year? How could it make a decision between Goodwill or the…
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Things That AI Cannot Do
Part One – December 2, 2025 I am not a fan of AI, but it appears to be a fan of me. It would really like to be my personal assistant, one that is ever ready with its offers of unsolicited advice. I am really tired of its little icon popping up here or there…
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On Writing about Childhood….
November 10, 2025 At my mother’s eulogy, I told the story of a childhood spent playing in the woods and brook by our home in Massachusetts. Everywhere lay the possibility of adventure with days spent skating on the frozen twists and turns of the forest brook, catching polliwogs in the spring, building a backyard zoo,…
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This Mother’s Day
May 11, 2025 This Mother’s Day has me thinking about mothers and how important they are to life. I am feeling a little weepy about the whole idea of moms as this is the first time I will spend the day without mine. A mom is someone we all have, whether they are nearby or…
