Behind the Ironic Column

This isn’t really in the proper category of miracles, but it’s definitely an unusual and unexpected event.  The carpet store near my apartment has finally really gone out of business – after at least three years of “absolutely final, everything on sale” announcements and signs on the windows.  I never went ...

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Shakespeare didn’t have the gingko tree in mind when he wrote the line “yellow leaves, or none, or few  do hang….”    The gingko in its full display of brilliant autumn yellow is the opposite of “none or few.”   The leaves are everywhere – glowing in shafts of fall sunlight, drifting ...

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