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Monday Musings: Boxing Day

December 29, 2008

“The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, ‘The work is done.’” ~~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~~ Octamom asked: Is your tree still up? Or […]

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An Independence Day Reflection: “Eeny, meeny, miny, moe…”

July 4, 2008

I have an ongoing love-hate relationship with “the little village of Lodi,” as Paul Zimmerman referred to it regularly when writing about local events in the Lodi News-Sentinel while I was growing up here in the 1960’s and ’70’s. Last night was our annual “Celebrate America” event at Hutchins Street Square. You couldn’t ask for a […]

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