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Photo Friday: Live Long and Prosper. And Help Me Find My Mate…

Posted on December 18, 2020 by dbjackson

It appeared early in the fall, on one of our first frosty mornings. There it lay on the rails-to-trails path: a lone glove. It looked new then, a recent purchase perhaps. Surely someone would be missing it. This is a … Continue reading →

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Photo Friday: It’s the Most Wonderful Time Of the Year!

Posted on December 4, 2020 by dbjackson

As I mentioned in a recent post about Thanksgiving (which covered the December holidays as well) I come from a Jewish family and still consider myself Jewish, though we are not at all a religious family. Nancy was brought up … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: Our New Game Nights

Posted on November 30, 2020 by dbjackson

About a month ago, Nancy and I decided that we had been watching too much television during our evenings together, and that we needed something else to pass the time in this age of Covid and a world gone mad. … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: Feeding Birds, How to Get Started

Posted on October 26, 2020 by dbjackson

Earlier this year, in the midst of spring bird migration, I wrote about my lifelong love of birding. I shared with you what birding has meant to me over the course of my life, and at the end I made … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: Booze. Yes, That’s Right… Booze

Posted on August 3, 2020 by dbjackson

I’m not going to lie to you. Nancy and I enjoy a nice bottle of wine. We like Scotch, too. And Bourbon. And tequila, rum, rye, Irish whiskey, beer, and cider. Nancy enjoys a nice Port. I like gin. But … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: 29 Years Ago This Weekend

Posted on May 25, 2020 by dbjackson

It’s Memorial Day – and, it seems to me, a particularly somber one at that – and so I won’t write too much for today’s Musings. But this is also a very significant weekend in my life. Twenty-nine years ago, … Continue reading →

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Super Bowl Sunday

Posted on February 1, 2015 by dbjackson

Today, of course, is Super Bowl Sunday, the most bizarre, quintessentially American “holiday” of the year. It is the anti-Thanksgiving. It is to Thanksgiving what evil Willow is to normal Willow on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, what Mirror Universe Spock … Continue reading →

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A Pair of Posts Up Today

Posted on December 23, 2014 by dbjackson

Today on the unofficial Spell Blind Winter 2014-15 Blog Tour, I have two posts up. The first can be found at the Magical Words blogsite. It’s a pretty light-hearted post  — a list of holiday superlatives (best holiday movie, best … Continue reading →

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Visiting Today with Kate Elliott!

Posted on July 3, 2014 by dbjackson

The Summer 2014 Plunder of Souls Blog Tour rolls on today with a post at the blog of my great friend, the brilliant, talented Kate Elliott.  Kate and I have known each other for many years and long ago decided … Continue reading →

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Thieftaker Fundraiser and Giveaway for Boston Bombing Victims

Posted on April 30, 2013 by dbjackson

I grew up just outside of New York City.  I was a Yankees fan, a Knicks fan, a Rangers fan, a Giants fan.  And, as a loyal New Yorker, I have spent much of my life rooting against teams from … Continue reading →

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