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Boredom Averted

2026-03-18Posted inbasketball, Iowa, North America, personal, sports, United States
Uninterested in the scintillating girls' basketball game just feet away, this little girl found ways to pass the time. Image Credits Video © 2026, Scott C. Sosna, all rights reserved.
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Meandering Thoughts #62

2026-03-17Posted inculture, meandering, Minnesota, United States
As seen at Cathedral of St. Paul. What defines legitimate "home use?" The obvious use is for home stoups for whom need to bless themselves as they enter/leave someone's home.…
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Homecoming Buttons

Homecoming Buttons

2026-03-16Posted inAmerican football, family, family history, Illinois, North America, personal, sports, United States
My grandfather attended Northwestern University before being drafted during World War II (for which I am eternally grateful, as he met my grandmother while stationed in New Mexico and therefore…
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Book Review #4

2026-03-16Posted inbooks, culture, Europe, North America, personal, United Kingdom, United States
Jill Eicher's book Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans At War tells the post-World War I battles between the United States and its allies - primarily the…
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Security Through Stupidity

Security Through Stupidity

2026-03-13Posted inIowa, personal, security, United States
Nostalgia and happenstance had me visit my former high school in Miles, Iowa to watch a girls' high school basketball game. Much had changed since I last visited 10+ years…
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Ghosts of Radio Shack

2026-03-13Posted inhistory, Iowa, North America, personal, United States
After its 2015 and 2017 Chapter 11 bankruptcies and the sale of its intellectual property in November 2020, Radio Shack today is strictly an online retailer. Innumerable articles attempt to…
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Family History #1

2026-03-07Posted infamily, family history, Illinois, personal, United States
My grandfather was an intelligent man, always looking for something to keep himself engaged in the world, to keep his brain nimble. While living in his retirement community, he told…
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Art Linkletter Gym Dandy Surrey

2026-03-07Posted inConnecticut, family, family history, North America, personal, United States
Fall 1967, 2½ year-old me playing outside at my grandparents' house in Westport, CT. In the background, the family Volkswagen Bug that transported us from our Manhattan apartment. I'm sitting…
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The World At My Birth

2026-03-05Posted inAlabama, Australia, history, New York, Oceania, personal, United States
I was born March 1, 1965, so let's see what made the New York Times the following day, March 2, 1965: Australia Punishes Dawn Fraser For Capers as Olympic Swimmer…
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Random Learnings #69

2026-03-05Posted inAustria, Europe, history, Hungary, Iowa, learnings, personal, United States
Growing up in Iowa, all I knew of Kossuth County was its unusual size: essentially double the size of other counties in the state, it's the reason Iowa has 99…
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