Author Archives
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Orange Pie Here I Come: California’s Sweetest Slice of Sun
There’s something to the magic alchemy of golden sun and cool air of California that makes its oranges all the plumper and shinier. The sweet fruit has proved to be not only the crucial draw of the initial masses of… Read More ›
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Mourning in Hooterville: The Nicest Guy Is Dead
Hooterville and Petticoat Junction suffered a tragic loss today with news that Sam Drucker, owner and manager of Drucker’s General Store has died. He was also postmaster, editor of the Hooterville World-Guardian and Justice of the Peace. He was known… Read More ›
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Michelle Obama & Her White House Garden Book: First Ladies As Authors
It had been forty-four years since a First Lady had given much attention to the White House grounds and significantly re-landscaped them when Michelle Obama broke ground for what has become, in the four years since, her White House Kitchen… Read More ›
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Jackie O’loha: When Jacqueline Kennedy Lived in Hawaii for Seven Weeks
She was forever associated with New York, Washington, Boston and Paris and she knew London, Newport, Rome, Athens and Palm Beach like the back of her hand. On this day in 1966, however, the world’s most famous woman, President Kennedy‘s… Read More ›
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How A Dying Neighbor & Dying Dog Helped Each Other Live: The Tale of Snackhouse
Introduction A year ago today my great daily companion of ten years, Yeager the Weimaraner, died. Of all the “Yeager epistles,” the one I’ve decided to set down on my own “Yeager Memorial Day” is one about that universal reality… Read More ›
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A Dog hurt by Neglect: Fostercare Weimaraner #3, Beamer
Sometimes, the problem isn’t just a matter of not enough love in the beginning, its too much love a little later on. Born in December 2005, he was called “Christmas Beamer.” Save for the fact that he given up at the time… Read More ›
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A Dog Up For Fun: Fostercare Weimaraner #2: Weimy
In a one-year memorial marking the loss of my dog companion Yeager, all articles running from June 1 through June 3 will reflect that subject, including the last two of three dogs I recently foster-cared from the same rescue shelter… Read More ›
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The President Who Loved to Dance
Granted, you may think of him as the man who became President under the most tragic of circumstances, one of only four times during the course of the American Presidency. Or as the President who escalated the most unpopular war… Read More ›
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Hoosier Sugar Cream Finger Pie, from the Indy 500 to the Quakers: Pies of the States
Yesterday during this last weekend in May, almost always on Memorial Day, is the traditional time for the famous Indianapolis 500 Race. What does it have in common with the Quakers? Both are quintessentially Indianian and part of the enduring… Read More ›
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