Category: Member Musings
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Member Musings features the reflections and thoughts of an NPC member. Mature Women, It’s Time To Unite! An email came today that has me up in arms. The subject matter was “crop tops.” For those of you (probably only men) unaware of how these two simple words could cause a revolution, crop tops are
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Member Musings features the reflections and thoughts of an NPC member. Next Time, A Staycation (written many years ago) I finally found my desk today. On the surface, that doesn’t seem like much of a discovery, but for me it was equal to that celebrated landing Columbus made in what was known as “The
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Member Musings features the reflections and thoughts of an NPC member. Class Notes My alumni magazine came today. I go right to “Class Notes.” There I find out that my fellow classmates are CEOs of major companies, or have produced award-winning films or have written books that are on the New York Times Best
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Member Musings features the reflections and thoughts of an NPC member. Disordered Thinking Maybe it’s something that happens with age. Possibly, the drinking water’s at fault. There’s even a chance I caught it from someone, like the flu. Or perhaps it’s inherited—I’ll have to check with my mother. Whatever the cause, I am falling
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Member Musings features the reflections and thoughts of an NPC member. Selling a Home There were people in my house, dozens of them, opening my closets, checking out my cupboards, measuring my walls and floors. An invasion of strangers wrecking my privacy. Selling a home is obviously stressful, but it implies so much more
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Member Musings features the reflections and thoughts of an NPC member. Spring House Cleaning — or Divorce Over the years I’ve learned a thing or two about being married. And about spring house cleaning. The two are not compatible. If you intend to clean your house from basement to attic rafters, you’d better be
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Member Musings features the reflections and thoughts of an NPC member. Driving is Driving Me Crazy Very few cars had automatic transmission when I began learning how to drive. My dad tried in vain to teach me how to shift, but I just could not coordinate the clutch and the accelerator. Fortunately we had
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Member Musings features the reflections and thoughts of an NPC member. Signs Of The Times Have you ever thought much about deer crossings? I have—several hours’ worth—on a long stretch of rain and wind-swept highway. My mind undertook the exploration of this subject a few minutes out of Fort Lauderdale on Alligator Alley, on what
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Member Musings features the reflections and thoughts of an NPC member. Toilet Tales When I was in the Louvre in Paris many years ago, I experienced my first automatic flushing toilet. Initially, I am embarrassed to say, I was sure the French were taking photos of people in the bathroom. What I saw was