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Never again

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:February 21, 2010
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I refuse to purchase a greeting card wrapped in cellophane ever again. Not because it's the green thing to do (which it is) or to save cash (which it would).…

Moose!

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:February 21, 2010
Post category:Autobiography Science
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When I was seventeen years old, I was canoeing across a lake in northern Maine. The lake was so large that I couldn’t see the shore on three sides. The…

Hudson recommends SOMETHING MISSING

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:February 20, 2010
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It never gets old. Walking through Fort Lauderdale International Airport, we walk by a Hudson Booksellers. On the front table, in one of the best locations possible in terms of…

Stuck in the minority

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:February 19, 2010
Post category:Autobiography Critic Quandry
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Late in the fall, I spent the afternoon in Northampton with my wife, my daughter, and my in-laws. We had a delightful lunch and spent the afternoon time touring the…

Upcoming events

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:February 19, 2010
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Next month I will be speaking at my hometown library as part of a program that is geared at offering an education in writing and publishing to anyone interested in…

The butterflies were nice. The signage was better.

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:February 18, 2010
Post category:Autobiography Words
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I spent the afternoon at Butterfly World in Coconut Beach, Florida, and while the butterflies, hummingbirds and flowers were delightful (my daughter adored the whole experience), it was the signage…

Why my wife will never allow me a Freebie List

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:February 18, 2010
Post category:Autobiography Idea

There is an amusing tradition amongst spouses that each can create a Freebie List of people who they are allowed to date in the event that the opportunity ever presents…

Tough to be a woman. Impossible to live without women.

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:February 17, 2010
Post category:Idea

I just overheard a phone call that expresses the essence of man and woman. Wife’s friend wants to have lunch with her and her husband. From what I can glean,…

Stop wasting oxygen

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:February 17, 2010
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I don’t understand these people who enjoy people-watching. Are these lunatics trying to tell me that they like to spend their time watching unattractive and ordinary people walk through airports,…

GAME CHANGE’s alliteration not quite music to my ears

Post author:Matthew Dicks
Post published:February 17, 2010
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I’m listening to Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s GAME CHANGE, the insider account of the 2008 election, and I’m enjoying it quite a bit. But the amount of alliteration that…