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You Are So Very Welcome

Ellen Berliner offered the caller a ready excuse that her system was incredibly slow that morning. What with the holiday coming up and Covid going around there were simply an awful lot of calls coming in. It rolled off her … Continue reading

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Some Things Never Change

(I’ve been less than productive with my fiction and have taken to typing at random hoping I can beat the chimp also typing a random to recreate the Complete Works of Shakespeare. I read somewhere that the chimp doing so … Continue reading

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A Lesson for the Inner Child

Well, I did it; I bought a Rolex. I did it after coveting one, toying with the idea, for decades. It’s just a watch albeit a very expensive one, an unneeded acquisition especially just a few weeks after buying a … Continue reading

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Forsooth Sayer

Harry made suggestive gestures around the voluptuous crystal ball. Eyes rolled back into his head, he chanted words that could have been Arabic, he even invoked Allah, with a smattering of Hebrew he recalled from a Bar Mitzvah, but most … Continue reading

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Metal Detectorists: The Thrill Is In The Discovery

← Pic Of The Day #1541 From Dan Woog’s column, https://06880danwoog.com/2021/07/08/metal-detectorists-the-thrill-is-in-the-discovery/ Posted on July 8, 2021 | 4 Comments Just when I think I’ve heard everything about Westport history, I learn something new. The other day, it was about a Confederate presence here in … Continue reading

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You’re Using Too Much Water

(This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual Pippas, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.) “You’re using too much water.” “What?” “I … Continue reading

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My swan song as a strategist?

From the Wall Street Journal, Nov 30 2018, under the title, Bond Indexes Bend Under Weight of Treasury Debt: “The Treasury Department projected to run trillion-dollar deficits for the foreseeable future. As issuance increases, funds that use the Bloomberg Barclays … Continue reading

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There’s No Place Like Home 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 … Continue reading

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No Place Like Home

Whittaker walked up Pilgrim Road deliberately splashing into the puddles left behind by the night’s downpour. He enjoyed the rain. April showers and all. He smiled at that. He also enjoyed the lightning and thunder that had accompanied the storm. … Continue reading

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Over My Dead Body

Wilkerson went about his business, such as it was which is to say not very much. Wilkerson’s days were like that now, had been for several years in fact. His business was puttering about, extending the mundane into the profound. … Continue reading

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