Gathered Pieces
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  • Lazy, Hazy, Lousy and Too Short
    My daughter asked me just last week about the piles of books in my bedroom: "Have you finished them? Plan to put them away?"

    "They're my summer reading," I told her. "Part of it." I waved toward the basket of books close by my bed and the ones on my night table,
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  • But Autumn Offers the Promise of More
    These late summer days before the plunge into fall become an interlude infused with hushed expectation. Though heat lingers, smells begin to change, (the texture)
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  • Living in Washington, D.C.
    Even in an inaugural month, the deeper currents of our nation's capital are barely disturbed. So what is this city like? High school, actually.
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  • The Glory of McKinney, Texas
    This is how I do it: I rent a car at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, make my way anxiously north on the crowded Metroplex highway, and scowl at the countryside defaced by urban
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