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SIMPLE STUFF: Moving through the cobwebs

Sometimes, it feels like fighting through cobwebs. Although most of my columns are pretty personal, this one is maybe more so than the rest. But...

23.04.2024 10

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SIMPLE STUFF: Everything should be on the test

Do you remember sitting in school and your teacher wanting to share an interesting little tidbit — and having one of your classmates start waving...

09.04.2024 20

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SIMPLE STUFF: Losing Vada

A few months ago, I think my mother-in-law Vada finally accepted that she was really 92, not 82 as she had insisted for a while, blaming it on that...

26.03.2024 8

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SIMPLE STUFF: Keep the music playing

I’ve been doing a lot of music writing lately. I hope you caught my interview with Kevin Crawford, the flute player for Lúnasa, the Irish band that...

12.03.2024 7

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SIMPLE STUFF: Hello? Are you actually a person?

I am old-school. When I want to pay a bill, need roadside assistance, or confirm something, I want to talk with a person, not a virtual assistant....

27.02.2024 5

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SIMPLE STUFF: The eclipse, from fifth grade to 63

When we received our assignments for our special section on the upcoming total solar eclipse in April, it brought back a funny memory. It was fifth...

13.02.2024 10

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NOT SO (SIMPLE STUFF): Say sorry and move on? Not in this case

There is so much wrong, in so many ways, with John Murtari’s column Monday suggesting that the charges against the Clyde-Savannah students accused...

30.01.2024 4

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SIMPLE STUFF: AI? Not for me. No thanks.

I got an email not long ago from Sakshi Ojha, who wants to teach me how to use Rizzle to create videos for news stories through artificial...

16.01.2024 20

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SIMPLE STUFF: A George Santos movie? Ugh!

A George Santos movie? My first thought: like someone’s dirty underwear, no one wants to see that. Yet, just days after he was shamed, disgraced and...

20.12.2023 20

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SIMPLE STUFF: (Grand)parentng is hard sometimes

There are a lot of fun things that go along with being in the role of a grandparent. But there are things, too, that aren’t so fun but necessary,...

05.12.2023 2

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NOT SO SIMPLE STUFF: Social media as a source

Recently, I was chastised for using information that I garnered from social media in a story. Everybody knows, the critic said, social media contains...

21.11.2023 10

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SIMPLE STUFF: Read to your 'Bunnies'

I visited my grandgirls recently and brought them — what else? — books, of course. I own a bookstore. That’s the side business I have had for...

24.10.2023 2

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(NOT SO) SIMPLE STUFF: Where did 'woke' come from and what does it really mean?

I am ashamed to say this: I did not know the origins of the word “woke” as it is being used these days. I actually scoffed at it in one of my...

10.10.2023 4

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(NOT SO) SIMPLE STUFF: It's a parent's responsibility, not the school's

I read something in the pediatricians’ column on the Wit and Wisdom pages in our paper Monday that struck a chord. It was a loud gong actually, in...

26.09.2023 2

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SIMPLE STUFF: Let's play chess

I was recruited to babysit for my grandboys a while back so my daughter and her partner could go to Taste of Wayne County for a couple of hours, to...

12.09.2023 7

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SIMPLE STUFF: My family tree is deep, but grafted

My boss, Mike Cutillo, ended his column a couple of weeks ago about his beloved Aunt Zia Rita by asking the question, “How’s your family tree?”...

09.09.2023 4

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