Tag: writing
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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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The Elephant in the Room
October 21, 2025 The sound of the train whistles in the early morning light. It must be the 6:30 train by now, the one that signals it is time to rise out of bed and begin the day. Just a few more moments here to linger in the comfort of warm blankets and dwell on…
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One Step Up … Two Steps Back
Woke up this morning my house was coldChecked out the furnace she wasn’t burnin’Went out and hopped in my old FordHit the engine but she ain’t turnin’ I was listening to this Bruce Springsteen song the other day, and I felt myself blinking back tears. Certain songs have a way of doing that to us,…
