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Pepys’ Diary
My God. Not long ago, I read the biography of Samuel Pepys by Claire Tomalin - mentioned it in an earlier entry, in fact. I’d been thinking recently that if Pepys were alive today, he’d be a celebrity blogger. Turns out he already is.
This project is incredible. Though I do wonder [...]

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:NPR : Traditional Travel Agents Seek to Compete with Net
Compete? He makes it sound like we’re destined for a museum, with little labels in Latin marking us out by subspecies, translated as in “Corporate Agent, var. SABRE2th Tigress.”
So far, I’m one of those niche people, but who knows for how long? And sometime next [...]

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My mother and my godmother Veda walked into the house on a cold January night 36 years ago. Another aunt on my mom’s side, Lucy, was also there.
They had been taking turns keeping watch with Mom at the hospital for almost two weeks, after an aortic aneurysm dropped my dad like a bale [...]

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