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After reading a recent column on the top songs of 50 and 100 years ago, a friend who’s now 50 years [...]

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Last week, just after the Super Bowl, I mentioned in this space that my hands-down favorite commerci[...]

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Last week I shared some of Martha’s and my recent experiences at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Naples, F[...]

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As we begin a new year, I am purging a pile of recent news stories that I feel I should pass along, [...]