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  • November 12, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    THURSDAYS WITH MOMMY

    THURSDAYS WITH MOMMY (with thanks and apologies to Mitch Albom) I have a ritual. Every Thursday I wipe my schedule clean and spend the day with my mother. I’m very lucky that I don’t have a regular 9 to 5 job, so I can afford to do this – and I don’t necessarily advocate this

  • November 10, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    JUST A THOUGHT

    JUST A THOUGHT I was making the bed with the TV on. I always make the bed with the TV on. It keeps me company while I do a rather boring, routine task. Anyway, there was this middle-aged man on the screen holding a pill. He said he had helped to perfect this pill, and

  • November 5, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    FOR ELIZABETH EDWARDS AND ALL OF US

    FOR ELIZABETH EDWARDS AND ALL OF US Word was all over the country yesterday that Elizabeth Edwards has been diagnosed with breast cancer. I think everyone’s hearts went out to her and to her family. To have this kind of news on the very same day that the Kerry-Edwards team had to concede must have

  • November 4, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    THE LOST ART OF NEIGHBORING

    THE LOST ART OF NEIGHBORING Back when I was growing up in Pittsburgh, we lived on Gettysburg Street. Our next door neighbors to the left (as you faced the street) were my Uncle Irv, my Aunt Bernice, and my cousins, Maira, Ronna, Richard and Mitchell. (Later on my cousins moved a mile or two away,

  • November 3, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    E PLURIBUS UNUM

    E PLURIBUS UNUM It is 7:00 a.m. here on the Pacific Coast. I have just had to digest the news of Bush’s re-election along with my breakfast. It’s not sitting very well. I must admit that I am mightily disappointed. In my opinion, the better man did not win. Some people feel safer with a

  • November 2, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    VAMPIRES

    VAMPIRES Well, yesterday was Halloween and tomorrow is Election Day, and I don’t know which is scarier. Anyway, Halloween put me to mind of vampires. No, not the kind that they show in the movies, but the kind that you run into day after day, probably without knowing it, most of the time. I used

  • October 27, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    FRIENDS WE HAVEN’T MET

    FRIENDS WE HAVEN’T MET Back when I was young and foolish, I thought that there was no rhyme or reason to the people who peopled my life. I just thought that the universe was random. If there was a Higher Power, it was capricious and inscrutable (apparently, lazy in spite of Its omnipotence). Therefore, I

  • October 26, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    ADOLESCENCE

    ADOLESCENCE A couple of days ago I called an old, dear friend of mine. She was in a funk. It turns out that her sixteen year-old (let’s call him Matt) has been acting out lately. He’s been “obnoxious”, “unreasonable”, and “mean”. He tells my friend (let’s call her Suzanne) – He tells Suzanne that he

  • October 23, 2004 / by Robin Munson

    SOME OF THE PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME

    SOME OF THE PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME I promised myself I wouldn’t write this, but I couldn’t help myself. During the summer of 1970 I traveled to Europe. I traveled with a group of students on a tour bus which took us through France, Italy, and Switzerland, and I had the incredible good fortune