What do you do when your dongle dies?

Lynda Davis
March 4, 2019
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The first time the word dongle came up in conversation was a few months ago in relation to my Firestick streaming device. Prior to that I didn't even know I had one. And I giggled like a little boy when he hears the word 'boobies', or that old sixties joke about the angle of the dangle. Anyway, I'd like to think I've matured a bit since then, but apparently not. Then, I heard the word dongle again this week when I took my laptop in for service. It's actually the…

Should we allow Patriots’ owner Robert Kraft to get off with a time-out?

Lynda Davis
February 28, 2019
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When I saw the picture in The New York Times of the "Day Spa" where Patriots' football team owner Robert Kraft met his Waterloo the other day, I was amazed at how innocuous the storefront appeared. Situated in a nondescript suburban strip plaza, the spa advertised waxing and facial treatments as well as the more nebulous services of massage therapy and body treatments. Yikes! I could have easily entered such a place to get my eyebrows waxed without knowing it was fronting a "rub n' tug". Life's full of risks.…

Becoming Michelle Obama is inspirational and insightful

Lynda Davis
February 22, 2019
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How does a lowly little blogger like me properly do justice to a lady like Michelle Obama? Santa brought me a hardcover copy of her memoir "Becoming" and although it was a hefty read, it was worth it. Like Tara Westover (author of Educated) and J.D. Vance (author of Hillbilly Elegy), Michelle Robinson Obama is a product of humble beginnings and hard work, always a fascinating subject for me. While she didn't endure the same challenges as Westover or Vance, she faced the constant underlying obstacle of being born black in…

Triple feature: Movies for baby boomer audiences

Lynda Davis
February 16, 2019
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The two months leading up to the annual Oscar ceremony in Hollywood is pretty much the only time of year movies are released that appeal to baby boomers. From December to mid-February there are actually some decent movies in theatres that don't involve monsters, wall-to-wall violence, sci-fi, zombies or irreversible annihilation of the planet. I've recently viewed three movies up for awards that I think you might find interesting: VICE: Christian Bale is a chameleon. His characterization of former Vice-President Dick Cheney is stunning and so different from the Irving…

How does he love me? Let me count the ways

Lynda Davis
February 10, 2019
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With Valentine's day on the horizon, it serves me well to remember that I'm a very lucky girl. Every day my honey demonstrates his love in so many ways I can hardly count them. Today, for example, he took me out to lunch—treating me at a restaurant where they offered a two-for-one special, until the 25th of the month. He didn't even ask me to pay my share and we had enough leftovers to bring home for dinner—four meals for the price of one. He's so thoughtful like that. I'm…

2019 Super Bowl vindicates this non-fan of football

Lynda Davis
February 4, 2019
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Let me be absolutely clear right up front; I have zero interest in and no knowledge or understanding of football. In my opinion it's a violent, concussion-inducing game right up there with cage fighting. Any time I've tried to watch a game I'm bored to tears within four minutes watching overpaid fat guys run a few yards and fall down, or more often, get knocked down—then, get up, only to run and fall down again. I can think of four hundred things I'd rather be doing with my time than…

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