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Staying Home

Posted on November 28, 2018 by admin

(A tad too close to home?  Well, it’s a bit of Maple Ave and Sudbury, I won’t deny, and a bit of me these days.)  “We’re done here Mr. Goodrich!”  It was the guy in charge of the movers, Joey … Continue reading →

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Little Ones

Posted on December 4, 2023 by admin

The little children exchanged the mug each holding it with both hands to the count of two, just long enough to get their hands warm. They so wanted to taste its contents, rich chocolate, sweet, forbiddingly sweet, but they needed … Continue reading →

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I Get By With A Lot of Help From My Friends

Posted on January 24, 2021 by admin

I haven’t written squat about the market in a very long while. That hasn’t stopped friends, mostly friends, not always friends, from pointing out how wrong my view of the market has been. The stock market that is. I admit … Continue reading →

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No One Wanted To Be A Hero

Posted on January 13, 2021 by admin

No one wanted to be a hero. No one.  Not now, anyway. It was over, pretty much, or would be soon enough. That’s what everyone was saying. That’s what newspapers said and the last one most guys saw was “yesterday’s … Continue reading →

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Savings at the Pump? Yesteryear’s News

Posted on February 6, 2019 by admin

(This appeared on WealthManagement.com, a division of my old firm Informa.) Savings at the Pump? Yesteryear’s News There was a time when lower energy prices were considered a boon to the economy. Not anymore. David Ader | Feb 04, 2019 There was … Continue reading →

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The Servant’s Entrance

Posted on January 2, 2019 by admin

Clifford Danforth couldn’t have cared less. There’d been the rumors for a while now; the President would be coming and it was all the town talked about. “Honestly?” asked the headline of an editorial in The Boothbay Register, the town’s … Continue reading →

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Allagash Sentimental

Posted on December 19, 2018 by admin

(I’ve been dry on ideas and forced myself to write it. Reminded me of how I feel with scrawny Christmas trees.  I won’t force you to read it, though!) I’m going cut down my Christmas tree today.  I don’t think … Continue reading →

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“Hey, I Just Felt It. A Twinge of Fear.”

Posted on November 8, 2018 by admin

“Hey, I Just Felt It. A Twinge of Fear.” (Written by Edward. A McCabe, former president and creative director of Scali, McCabe, Sloves, this appear in the New York Times Magazine on Dec 7, 1986 whenI was going through a rough … Continue reading →

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We Have to Move (Sweet)

Posted on November 7, 2018 by admin

(This is the first version, the ‘nice’ about a son visiting his aging father) Phillip turned the car into the gravel driveway comforted by the grassy hump down its middle, the part that car tires hadn’t trampled down. The hump … Continue reading →

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Fiction

Posted on October 28, 2018 by admin

Over My Dead Body Curmudgeon Little Ones The Better Version Scarecrow & Dorothy Urge To Go In Counter A Serious Lucky Streak The Devil’s Disciple Magic Mushrooms Coaxial This Island Hopping A Virtual Life Oskar Forsooth Sayer Hold That Head … Continue reading →

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