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The robins have returned to my winter-stricken version of Capistrano. They say it is bad luck if you see your first robin of the season on the ground; “A robin on the wing brings good luck through the spring”, or something like that. I saw perhaps half a dozen of them on the ground yesterday…

Today is December 1st. My father, were he still alive, would have been 82 today. When my mother had to be placed into an assisted care facility five years ago, it fell to my sisters and myself to clean out the house she and my father had built with their own two hands in the…

Not particularly flattering, eh? Ah well, I’ll take “apple” over “banana” any day of the week. Finally heard from The Professor, who made a quick pass through cyberspace last night. He found a way to download one of the digital pictures from his camera onto the net (don’t ask me how; I didn’t think he…

• 1 jigger bourbon • 1 tablespoon mild honey • 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice • 1/4 cup boiling-hot water Last night I substituted Splenda for the honey, since that is what I had in the house. It doesn’t cure the common cold, but it sure makes you care less about it. The cold has…

One of the things that I’ve omitted mentioning recently is that I itch. I’m not talking little mosquito bite itch. I’m not even talking poison ivy itch. I’m talking itch that makes you seriously consider removing your skin down to the sub-dermal fat layer. I’m talking itch that makes you claw frantically at whatever part…

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