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Things That Disappear
The pale yellow “favorite blanket” that you had as a child. The hair dryer that covered your head like a…
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The Last of the Best
Watch a video of this blob by going to my You Tube Channel. The text came when we were in…
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Fear and Trembling
It’s that time of year again, Black History Month, the month when I once again try to explain to nine…
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Don’t Send Her Back
The defining chant of Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign is almost certainly going to be “send her back.”
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A Cruel June
It goes on. Last Sunday morning we woke up to read about yet another mentally ill individual who went out…
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Christmas in the Caribbean
Christmas Eve in Bequia is a day of frenzied shopping, for unlike up in the States, no stores down here…
![Bagging It](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Crocodile-Handbag-150x150.jpg)
Bagging It
Okay, if I were the boss of that posh shop in Zurich, Switzerland, Trois Pomme, I would fire the saleswoman…
![The Little Blue Dress](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Little-Blue-Dress-150x150.jpg)
The Little Blue Dress
My husband and I were watching the news last night and out of the chaos of war and royal babies…
![One if by Land](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Old-North-Church.jpg)
One if by Land
So, we went up to Boston, my husband and I, about three months after the Boston bombings and found the…
![Hopscotch](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/hopscotch.jpg)
Hopscotch
You remember the 1980 movie “Hopscotch,” don’t you? Walter Matthau played a rogue CIA agent who was publishing a book…
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Nineteen Eighty Four
I know I should feel outraged, violated, sullied. When the whistle-blower Edward Snowden this last week let it be known…
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Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is now a trip to the cemetery for me, I’m afraid. A trip to the florist’s first, of…
![Easter](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Easter-150x147.jpg)
Easter
These days, we don’t go in much for huge Easter feasts with the relatives anymore. Easter is more of a…
![Waiter, There's a Horse in My Soup](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/horse-150x142.jpg)
Waiter, There’s a Horse in My Soup
You really have to feel sorry for the French. No matter how bad things ever got over there, no matter…
![Snow Days](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Waterbury-Snow-150x148.jpg)
Snow Days
Remember just two blogs ago, I exhorted all of you to embrace the much maligned winter season? Well, I can…
![Life Without Football](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/football-150x149.jpg)
Life Without Football
When I got up this morning, I did check and see who had won yesterday’s game, not because I was…
![Baby, It's Cold Outside](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/winter-150x150.jpg)
Baby, It’s Cold Outside
All right, it’s been pretty cold lately and at the moment it’s raining ice onto my roof. Everyone has been…
![Eastward Ho!](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/depardieu3.jpg)
Eastward Ho!
Back when I was in high school in the late seventies and early eighties, back in the waning days of…
![Island Of the Clouds](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/bequia-150x150.jpg)
Island Of the Clouds
Let me just get it over with and explain where it is we are. On an island called Bequia which…
![Living in America](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Newtown-150x150.jpg)
Living in America
There have been days since my father and mother passed away three-and-a-half years and a year ago respectively when the…
![Coming to America](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/oath-swearing-150x150.jpg)
Coming to America
“You all memorized the Constitution, right?” the thin, blonde lady immigration officer asked a packed courtroom in Hartford, Connecticut last…
![Boat People](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/boat-people-150x135.jpg)
Boat People
So, Thanksgiving is once more upon us, the season in which where I work, little lines of boys and girls…
![Shorefront Anyone?](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Dunwich-150x150.jpg)
Shorefront Anyone?
When I was an undergraduate at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England, there was a lecturer there by…
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It’s Not a Riot Any More
The trial was over. The appeal had failed. The world’s press had gone home when last weekend, Maria Alyokina, age…
![School Days](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Muslim-girl-150x141.jpg)
School Days
So the Taliban are now shooting girls who want to go to school, are they? Not that this is really…
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Horror in Hyvinkää
There was a time nearly a hundred years ago when Finns did shoot at other Finns. Depending on who you…
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Don’t Go to Gibraltar!
“Whatever you do, don’t go to Gibraltar.” This was what our friends and neighbors down on the Costa del Sol…
![Fascinators Forever](http://www.lindastrange.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Fascinator2-150x143.jpg)
Fascinators Forever
I’m going to a wedding in England this summer and I’m pretty pleased about it. Of course, I’ll be happy…