News worth 300 pianos

Last October, I bought a piano. Attentive visitors to our house might have observed that certain of my dining room chairs and the underside of the dining room tablehave markings suspiciously similar in shape and size to the dentition of my beloved cat, Gjetost. Those of you who haven’t met her yet need to know […]

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Meme mom

Blog mom Kimberly has tagged me with a meme. Memes, for those of you who don’t speak bloggish, are themes for blog-posts that get passed around among bloggers. Now herewith the meme: Total number of books I have owned: I cannot even begin to guess. Erma Bombeck once said that garage sales are for people […]

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Reason #834 I love Montclair

About those black raspberries: They grow like weeds in my neighborhood (and some of my more idiotic neighbors actually consider them to be weeds). They serve as my bait to get me out jogging regularly at least one month out of the year. This year, they’re ripe about a month early, and they’re plumper, juicier, […]

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