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Sundays With Sinatra
“Shoe-bi-doobie-do. It’s Sunday with Sinatra.” The program, brought to you by Sid Mark, started in Philadelphia sixty years ago and what once started as an hour long block, quickly turned into a Sunday morning regular. From 9 AM – 1 PM you could tune in and hear The Sounds of Sinatra on the Big Talker…
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90/365 Miles To Go
I made a little thing inspired by Robert Frost from when I was in Maine.
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89/365 Storytelling As Currency
My father argues against the use of clichés, but I’ll get it over with and start with one at the beginning: “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Who said this? Who believes it? With a quick google search I found that the phrase is credited to the playwright and novelist, Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The now…
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88/365 The Magic of Going to A Concert Alone
In the opening pages of Robert McCammon’s book, Boy’s Life, he talks about magic. Specifically he says: When people get weepy at movies, it’s because in that dark theater the golden pool of magic is touched, just briefly. Then they come out into the hard sun of logic and reason again and it dries up, and…
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87/365 The Things I Know
There are some things I know And there are some things I forget. I’m guessing those things are in the trash icon At the back of my head. This brain a computer. These thoughts are my files. My words are what I recklessly print. I wish I was more tech savvy To unblock the potential…
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86/365 The Life Long Struggle of An ENFP
This past Sunday I was babysitting my ten month old niece and after lulling her to sleep I rewarded myself with a beer from my brother’s fridge, and a plethora of TV streaming options. I settled on the movie, High Fidelity, which I had never seen before and while there are a myriad of noteworthy…
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85/365 How Backpacking Through Europe Changed My Life
On the desk of my childhood bedroom you can find a plastic Utz pretzel container. In red sharpie it has been labeled as, “Italy Money,” with several exclamation points after it. Some time after that it became the, “Travel money jar.” I believe I was in middle school when I deposited my first handful of…
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84/365 The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon
There is a certain comfort that comes from having the name for something that you are feeling. And the name for what I am experiencing is Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, or so the Internet tells me so. This phenomenon is also known as the frequency illusion, it’s the name for when the thing you have just experienced…
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83/365 The Decisions You Make
I had lunch with a friend on Saturday, and after catching up with each other on some details from the last few months it seemed clear to me that his life was following a similar pattern that most of my friends have found themselves in. He had an idea of what he wanted, but ran…
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82/365 For The Love of Reading
I fell in love with reading at eight years old. I say eight because that is the first time I can remember not being able to put a book down, where I had to keep turning the pages in order to see what was going to happen next. It is when I started to insist…
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