Thanks, y’all

Maybe I’m getting old. Maybe the climate is changing. Maybe both. Winter seemed to arrive very suddenly this year.
One day it’s a vest and short-sleeved shirt, the next it’s the L.L. Bean parka and the wool hat. Tuesday afternoon I drove through a blizzard. It was only a couple hundred yards, and it was gone [...]

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A little gridlock with your coffee, sirs and ma’ams?

September 11, 2001. We all were dazed. Not since the Civil War had such carnage been visited within our borders. World War I and II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm — all had been waged on other soil.
Within days, we rallied behind our Commander–in-Chief. In the name of fighting terrorism, we popped for a $15 million [...]

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