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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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Why I Didn’t Vote

It’s November 6, and I’m sitting at Starbucks writing this piece, across from the polling place I chose not to vote at in 2018. For

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Trick-or-Treat Economy

The mavens and savants are struggling with lots of economic numbers coming in that do not conform to popular wisdom. We have a very tight

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Why do I care so much?

The World Series between the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers starts tonight in Beantown. I’ll probably watch, but I may listen to a

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