Thursday, May 25, 2017

Honeymooning with Wookiees - A Star Wars Story (sort of)

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Originally Published in Collision (University of Pittsburgh), Spring 2001 While my husband, Jim, may be the only man in America who c...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Leavetakings, Part II

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In some ways, I'm still having trouble believing that I'm writing such a similar essay just a few months after writing about my mo...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

My 2017 Oscar Predictions

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I'm running very late with this. I have seen most of the nominated movies (except for Hacksaw Ridge and Hell or High Water). I liked...
Saturday, December 31, 2016

My Year in Statistics and Life Facts

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Jim and I have been a couple for over 40 years. Wow, who'd've thought? ;-> We've been parents for 36 years and Leslie fi...
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Carrie Fisher, Patty Duke and Me

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I never met these two famous women in my title. However, I really knew both of these talented women better than most. I absolutely idoli...
Friday, November 11, 2016

Fairness and Donald Trump

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Fairness and Donald Trump On November 10, 2016, the "real" Donald J. Trump tweeted: Just had a very open and successful pre...
Sunday, November 06, 2016

From Registered Republican to a Registered Democrat

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Many women have been writing about how their experiences with misogyny have led them to support Hillary Clinton. I whole-heartedly agre...
Tuesday, November 01, 2016

How to Estimate Affordable Care Act Insurance Premiums (AKA Obamacare) Using https://www.healthcare.gov/see-plans/

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How to Estimate Affordable Care Act Insurance Premiums (AKA Obamacare) Using https://www.healthcare.gov/see-plans/ Remember the initial c...
Saturday, September 24, 2016

Trump Will Fail Debate - He Can't Get Past These Already Debunked Lies

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This was the single most brilliant move by the Clinton campaign - to release a catalog of many (but probably not all) of Trump's lies j...
Monday, August 08, 2016

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Leavetakings - July 2016 July 2016 was a month of leavetakings, the happy and the sad. We had long encouraged our daughter to move out,...
Thursday, June 02, 2016

An Essay By My Mother, 1962: A Young Mother's Story

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[[ My mother, Ruth Shonyo Trask, is a free-lance writer who spent over 20 years working for the WPI Journal as a writer and an editor. She...
Friday, May 13, 2016

Why I Love the Always Hungry Diet: Obese, Post-Menopausal Woman on the Journey to Being "High Normal"

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I've been a fat person for nearly 50 years, an obese person for nearly 33 of those years, and a morbidly obese person for about 3 of t...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

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Quick Lower Calorie Smore Desserts are often a sore point if you're trying to cut back on junk food. But sometimes you want more th...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

30 Years After the Challenger Disaster

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Just about half a lifetime ago, I was working for Stratus Computer in Hudson Massachusetts. During group meetings, we sometimes saw the fam...
Saturday, January 09, 2016

My Best Movies of 2015

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I had a feeling when I first saw Spotlight that it would be my favorite movie of the year, and it is. Exceptionally intelligently written,...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

Spoilers * Star Wars, The Force Awakens Comments and Spoilers

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So if you really don't want to read spoilers, STOP NOW               I went to this movie not knowing anything new (thou...