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Subway 911 A man in Jacksonville, Fla. was arrested last week for making fraudulent 911 calls.He wasn’t calling the police station to ask if their “refrigerator is running?” and he wasn’t asking the dispatcher if she had “Prince Albert in a can?” The Associated Press reported that Reginald Peterson was hauled off to the pokeyContinue reading “Subway 911”

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Eating Ones Way Through the 100-Meter Freestyle My wife is nuts about the Summer Olympics. Every television in our home is tuned to the games in China and she calls me hourly with details of how well the United States is doing against the Lithuanian handball team. I’m more of a Winter Olympics-type guy. I’llContinue reading “Eating Ones Way Through the 100-Meter Freestyle”

Peaches One of the unexpected benefits of writing a weekly food column which is centered mostly around food is that people always give me food. I love my job. At a book signing earlier this year a man walked up with a flat of blackberries and blueberries. “Here, check these out,” he said. An entireContinue reading “Peaches”

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North vs South Weddings While reading the July 27th edition of the New York Times I came across this wedding announcement: “Coleen Mary Jennings and Bethany Ann Mills affirmed their partnership on Wednesday night at Full Moon, a resort in Big Indian, N.Y. Tim Hughes, a friend from San Francisco, and Randy Schwartz, a friendContinue reading “North vs South Weddings”

We’re Number One! (Again) In junior high school pep rallies were mandatory. I never minded them because they were a legitimate excuse to get out of class and hang out in the gymnasium. I never became too lathered up during these proceedings; call it lack of school spirit, absence of general enthusiasm about which gradeContinue reading “We’re Number One! (Again)”

A Tale of Two Heavens Blackberry Farm is the most civilized 4,200 acres on the planet. I spent my 10th anniversary at Blackberry Farm a few years ago. I wrote about the visit at length, and continue to talk about it, today. Earlier this month, my wife and I dropped our kids off at summerContinue reading “A Tale of Two Heavens”