When one rents a home and an appliance breaks, the landlord will (one hopes) repair or replace the item. That’s it. When one owns a home and an appliance breaks, it can turn into a cascade of purchases I call the Homeowner Begets. Two weeks ago our microwave oven/kitchen ventilation fan ceased to function. Because …
June 2016 archive
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Jun 15
Cranberries in June
Last Saturday we had the usual get-together with our friends. The host family has three gluten-intolerant members, and one with an egg allergy. This required some ingenuity to figure out how to feed between the lines. Luckily, I looked in the freezer and found two bags of cranberries left over from the holidays. Since the …
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Jun 13
I Shouldn’t Have to Write This
Another day, another mass shooting with a military-style assault rifle. The shooting in Orlando was different in scale and target than the others. Forty-nine people in a gay nightclub were gunned down in a horrific three-hour siege. The police managed to drive an armored vehicle through the wall of the club and kill the gunman …
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