Blog Master G

My friends and brothers: The Apostrophe Protection Society. It’s comforting to know that someone besides me is looking out for protection of the apostrophe as we know it. The Apostrophe Protection Society was started in 2001 by John Richards, now its Chairman, with the specific aim of preserving the correct use of this currently much […]

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Bringing more direct sunlight into our house, protecting our investment by allowing the sun to dry the roof and walls, and improving our curb appeal are just a few of the reasons why yesterday we had our four 80-year-old white spruce trees trimmed. I first wrote about this back in May when we got the […]

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The seasons are changing. It’s about 52 degrees this morning (Northeast insta-season change yields overnight temperature drop, which yields sneezing and sniffling for me). Even though we weren’t planning on doing much this weekend, every day was non-stop go go go. Friday Nat and Heather invited us over for a yummy dinner. Then Heather kicked […]

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It’s shocking and sad how we, the richest nation in the world, can’t figure out a way to help all the people who are stranded in New Orleans — on rooftops, in parking lots, at the convention center. What are they still doing there? Why can’t they get out? It’s certainly poor people who are […]

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The tail end of hurricane Katrina hit upstate New York yesterday evening, as we got soaked with some pretty intense rain. But it was nothing like other thunderstorms we’ve seen this summer or anything like the terrible havoc that’s been wreaked on the Big Easy this week since the levees gave way. The implications of […]

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