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Who Needs Your Grandmother’s Silver

Remember your mother’s or grandmother’s silver service for 12 that she only used once or twice a year when the whole family showed up? Remember when nobody else in the family would take it when she passed away–because who had the space or the desire to show off fancy dishes

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Barber School

Sometimes you can learn a lot from getting a haircut. I’ve been going to the same barbershop for 20 years.  My needs are simple.  Same

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Football Breather

I needed a football weekend badly.  It had been a week of business travel, end-of-the-month tension, end-of-the-year push, and what I really wanted was to

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