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Q&A: Big city girl on exchange from China
May 12, 2012
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Perlman alumni concerts are announced
May 13, 2012
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Obituary: E.Y. Clark
April 26, 2012
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April 23, 2012
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April 18, 2012
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Editorial: Just hold it?
May 17, 2012
Column: Not as easy as it looked on television
May 12, 2012
Posts by Joanne Sherman:
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Column: Not as easy as it looked on television
What was I thinking? It seemed like such a great project to tackle on Memorial Day Weekend. Three days was enough time to transform my kitchen from dark, dated and dingy to fresh and bright! All I needed was some paint, right? I mean, that’s how it happens on those...
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From the Slow Lane: The infrequent flier: a tale of frustration
At the risk of sounding like a frequent-flying whiner (as opposed to the occasionally flying whiner that I am) I miss the days of flying the friendly skies when the only question a flier had to answer was “coffee or tea?” Either I have a face that screams “guilty!” or I...
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Column: You know it’s time to come home when…
I am writing this from my corner of our motor home. My traveling companion and life partner, the man I married 45 years ago — perhaps in haste — sits in the opposite corner of the RV glaring daggers at me. I don’t know if he’s snapping the paper because...
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Getting to the tooth of the matter
I have experienced intense pain twice when I delivered babies and once when the top of a pop-up camper fell on my head. But none of the above prepared me for what happened one perfect day in February a few years back. The weather was warm and balmy, I had...
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From the Slow Lane: We like it when it snows where you are
Exactly what do snowbirds do, you may be wondering, while we are temporarily displaced for the winter? Some people spend their time on the golf course, playing tennis or riding bikes. Others jog or take walks. Basically we do the exact same things summer people do on Shelter Island, except in...
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From the Slow Lane: Got a pulse? Then shuddup, why don’tcha?
Here we are, for the eighth winter in a row, surrounded by a couple hundred other snowbird RVers — mostly retired military people living in motor homes — waiting out the winter parked in a campground that’s actually just a big field on a Navy base in Key West. We get...
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From the Slow Lane: Warm Christmas memories from Key West
I passed Santa on the sidewalk last Saturday and I’m pretty sure he was the real Santa. He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot (!) and had a flowing beard as white as the snow (!). I behaved the way anyone would; I screamed “Santa!”...
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From the Slow Lane: Onion cutter or maybe chocolate diamonds?
You can tell we’re into the gift-giving season because of the commercials. Some spectacular gift items from Christmases past are getting hyped again, items such as the machine that transforms a plain, old everyday onion into a beautiful, golden, onion blossom. (Actually, the machine just slices the onion, the operator...
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From the Slow Lane: My favorite Kardashian
Late last month, we headed to St. Croix. The two flights to get there — one from New York to Miami, the other from Miami to St. Croix — were uneventful, but our return trip, smack into the middle of the October snowstorm, turned into a white-knuckle flyer’s worst nightmare. The leg...
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From the Slow Lane: Things that go scratch in the night
I was getting our RV ready for an eight-day trip to New England last month when I first heard the noise. It was a scraping noise. But not just scraping, really, more like scrape scrape, scratch, skitter. I held my breath and listened harder. In case you have never been inside...
