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Revisiting Music of My Youth – Bowie & Psych Furs (with a brief appearance by Shaun Cassidy)

Happy New Year! Here’s hoping we can reclaim our democracy this year. We sure are trying, so if you live outside of the United States and are wondering what the heck is going on in this country, so are we … and we’re doing our best to keep up with the daily chaos. There are more of us who are pro-democracy, pro-international order and peacekeeping, and pro-rule of law, but you may not be able…

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Busy, Honking, Clean Boston

In October, I had a chance to visit Boston, Massachusetts, for a work conference. Hubby and I had never been to Boston, so he tagged along and we took a couple extra days to see the city. What a marvelous place! It was fairly easy for us to catch a bus from the airport to get to our hotel in the Back Bay area, not too far from Boston Common and the Charles River. In…

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