Monday, October 02, 2017

Why Massacres Are ALWAYS Terrorist Act

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[[Originally published on 10/2/2017 in Alien Cheese]] Many people have a very narrow definition of terrorism -- it's always related to...
Monday, July 17, 2017

Confluence 2017 Restaurant Guide: Restaurants Between Robinson Township and the Airport

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[Originally published on 7/17/2017 in Alien Cheese] Most of the restaurants fall into three areas: Thorn Run Crossing near the Sheraton P...

Speculations on Game of Thrones [[Full of Spoilers]]

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[Originally published 7/17/2017 in Alien Cheese] While I'd been aware of George Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" for ma...
Monday, June 05, 2017

The Wonder of Wonder Woman

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Months ago, I had very mixed feelings about going to see the Wonder Woman movie. I was never a big Wonder Woman fan in the first place. ...
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...