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Month: November 2022

HAPPINESS, LIFE, ON WRITING

Week in Review: Week 47

Reading Time: 3 minutes Modern Thanksgivings are comic tragedies of tension, travel, parades, and commercialism. We put up with all this to focus on food and family. Where is faith? Continue reading Week in Review: Week 47

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HAPPINESS, LIFE, ON WRITING, SHORT TAKES

Time to move on, 1978

Reading Time: 2 minutes What I didn’t realize at the time was that creative “work” and “a job” aren’t mutually exclusive. You can have your cake and eat it too, only in smaller portions. Continue reading Time to move on, 1978

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HISTORY, LIBERTY, LIFE, SHORT TAKES

The Mayflower Compact

Reading Time: 2 minutes The history of the Plymouth Colony is dramatic and often controversial, but that one act planted the seed of self-governance, freedom, and independence that we enjoy today. Continue reading The Mayflower Compact

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HISTORY, LIFE, ON WRITING, SHORT TAKES

Week in Review: Week 46

Reading Time: 3 minutes As part of my research into the back story of the creation of Bubble Wrap, I needed to connect the dots of how the two inventors met. I had a good timeline with documentation for Marc Chavannes, but not enough on my own father, Alfred Fielding. Continue reading Week in Review: Week 46

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LIBERTY, LIFE, ON WRITING, SHORT TAKES

Week in Review: Week 45

Reading Time: 2 minutes Digging into history and political philosophy, it’s good to be on the side of people like George Washington. Continue reading Week in Review: Week 45

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HAPPINESS, HISTORY, LIBERTY, LIFE

George Washington tried to warn us

Reading Time: 4 minutes Political parties still make decisions based on ill-fated jealousies and false alarms. Both accuse opponents of collusion with foreign conspirators. Continue reading George Washington tried to warn us

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LIBERTY, LIFE, LIVING HERE, SHORT TAKES

Election Day (or days)

Reading Time: 2 minutes There is no right way or wrong way to vote. Voters must make their best possible choices based on what they know at a single point in time. Continue reading Election Day (or days)

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Week in Review: Week 44

Reading Time: 2 minutes Research for my book and on the history of Bubble Wrap continues. Could inventor Marc Chavannes have had something the Nazis wanted? Continue reading Week in Review: Week 44

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Howard FieldingNovember 6, 2022November 12, 2022Leave a comment
SHORT TAKES

The season with no name

Reading Time: 2 minutes “Indian summer,” coined by an 18th-century farmer, is part of the charm of our language, and part of its curse. Continue reading The season with no name

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HAPPINESS, LIFE, SHORT TAKES

Week in Review: Week 43

Reading Time: 2 minutes When I got home, the screen of my laptop was completely shot. The computer was unusable. Coincidence? Perhaps. Or perhaps God works in mysterious ways. Continue reading Week in Review: Week 43

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Howard Fielding's "Living Here" column ran for 25 years in The Sunday Republican of Waterbury, Connecticut. Now retired, he's still living here, online. Join him to enjoy sunsets, short uplifting essays, works in progress, special surprises, and the occasional trip down Memory Lane.

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  • Civil Eyes 321 — J.M. Gifford's blog about civil public discourse.
  • Erin Covey Creative — wedding portfolios by my favorite portrait photogapher.
  • The Bee's Pajamas — Beverly Foster Seinberg’s "random stuff from an aging Aspie brain.”
  • The Thinkers' Club – I enjoy Shekhar Dasgupta's delightful and insightful essays on this collaborative site.
  • Wild About Harry — John Cox’s longstanding home to everything Houdini.

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