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Memorial

I first want to thank everyone who’s come out this evening to remember and celebrate my father’s life. Hemingway said, “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” My father was born […]

Candied Grapefruit

When my mother-in-law, Jane, was a girl, her mother would make candied grapefruit peel every Christmas.  I’ve heard, for years now, about how wonderful that was, and how much she loved it, and how you just can’t buy it anymore. I had never had any candied grapefruit, though I’ve heard […]

Work Uniform

A while back, I heard the suggestion to “simplify your life” by dressing in a “uniform.”  Not an official uniform, of course – I’d look pretty silly walking into the office in an actual uniform, wouldn’t I?  No, what was meant, or at least the way I took it, was […]