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So the point is that today there will be twelve hours of sunlight and twelve hours without the sunlight.  That sounds okay until you begin to do the math.  Since the sunrise today (in Rhode Island) was at 6:34 a.m, it will set just as the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley is coming on!  [...]

When I hear the words patent leather I think of Shirley Temple. No, not the kiddie cocktail, but the child actress.   It seems to me that whenever I saw her in those classic movies she was wearing glossy shoes, typically tap dance shoes. It is a moment for self-disclosure.  When I was a kid I [...]

In an op ed article in the New York Times by A.E. Hotchner which was published on July 2, I discovered a new understanding of the person of Ernest Hemingway.  Hotchner was one of Hemingway’s closest friends and chose to relate the details of the paranoia experienced by the famous author in the days leading [...]

At 1:16 p.m. today the sun reached the point of summer solstice on this, the longest day of the year.  I’ll be arriving at my urologist’s office for an ultrasound of my bladder.  Oh, well, different people will be celebrating in different ways all over the world.  I may be unique in that matter! Photo [...]