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Southern Sojourn Day 3: 15 May 2022 Arlington & Alexandria VA
Woke early in my Woodbridge guest quarters at 6.30, panicking, bowels loose at the thought of having no working cell phone for the entirely of my odyssey. Somehow managed to talk myself down, and after a light breakfast followed by a few more futile attempts at fixing my Galaxy S10, I gave up, determined to…
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Southern Sojourn Day 2: 14 May 2022 Princeton NJ > Woodbridge VA
The day began with coffee in lieu of the free breakfast Marriott did not provide once I negotiated a tricky left exit into the Delaware welcome station, “Home of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.”; left exits as political statement? Surely not. Traffic got heavier and faster, the traffic patterns more complex, the closer I got…
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Southern Sojourn Day 1: Madbury NH > Princeton NJ
Google maps are great, but how do you contradict the GPS assistant who wants you to take the shortest route when you want to take the longer, less trafficked, and MUCH greener route through the Hudson River valley and across the Tappan Zee (“Tappan” after the Native American sub-tribe of the Delaware/ Lenape people, and…
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Home again
Leaving Philadelphia at 9 am on 31 May as the temperature climbed to 96o, I arrived back home in Madbury NH to 55o temperatures at 5 pm, three years to the day since the final hours spent with my darling husband David. I awoke alone this morning to the silence of a house with only…
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May the 4th be with you . . . .
Mark Hamill, George Lucas, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford Those, Dear Reader, were the days. See “Empire Laid Bare: Making the Original Star Wars Trilogy–in Pictures” in THE GUARDIAN, 3 December 2018.
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If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
Though often attributed to either Florynce Kennedy or Gloria Steinem, Steinem herself elaborated the provenance of this quotation in a 2006 Boston Globe interview: “You know who said that? Years ago [1971], I was in a taxi in Boston or Cambridge. There was an old Irish woman taxi driver. Flo Kennedy, the civil rights activist,…
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GEM Centennial Day
George Edward Murphy, DDS 22 April 1922-25 April 2002 Best of dads, dentists, friends, sons, husbands, grandfathers, U.S. Army veterans, Beloved by all lucky enough to know you. Rest in peace on this your centennial birthday.
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The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future, too.
How do you, Dear Reader, respond to the seashore? Matthew Arnold heard there “the eternal note of sadness”—like my mother and paternal grandfather as I recall. For Arnold, “the turbid ebb and flow / Of human misery” evoked a thought all too resonant for our present time: . . . we are here as…
Georgeann Murphy 