In these tumultous times, consider keeping a journal

By | Posted January 6th, 2021 |

Locked down in the midst of a pandemic? Trying whiling away the hours in a conversation with your dead grandmother. That’s what I am doing. No, I haven’t taken leave of my senses. Well, not completely.

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    The end of Norwalk Lioness Club is loss for the village

    February 10th, 2021
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    I suppose we might have seen it coming. After all, it was 1987 when Lions Club International became the first service club to admit women.

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    Every day is April Fools’ Day

    January 14th, 2021
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    What if I were to include in this column information on a bar in Wilton that serves minors, and after getting them drunk, uses them to create child pornography? Now, 95 percent of you (or at least I hope that many) would assume I have spent way too much time sucking down the last of the New Year’s champagne.

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    It occurs to me this will be the first year in decades that my family will not have a Christmas tree.

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    December 12th, 2020
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    Even though I have been acquainted with the Internet for nearly 30 years, I’m still amazed by how content boomerangs around faster than you can say “Facebook.”

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    As soon-to-be “citizen” Trump rides off into the sunset, there has been much speculation about how he has changed politics forever, whether he will run again in 2024, how influential he will remain in the Republican Party, etc.

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