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Yearly Archives: 2009
Gifts Epilogue: Christmas 1979
An epilogue to the previous post, “Gifts.” On Christmas Day of 1979, my parents, my sisters, and I drove out to Stony Brook to visit with Oma and Opa. Opa was in the terminal stage of the cancer that would … Continue reading
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My Old Man, BS Ph
The price war that erupted this week among Amazon, Wal-Mart, Target, and Barnes & Noble has authors, publishers, and independent booksellers nervously speculating about what the future holds for them. Ironically, Barnes & Noble, whose sheer size gave it pricing … Continue reading