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Feeling out of place
When I left high school for college, I boarded a train in Oakland, CA, bound for Kalamazoo, MI. Looking up the AMTRAK schedules listed now, I think it must have been the California Zephyr route, which ends in Chicago, and then there is a connecting train to Kalamazoo. Why was I headed for Kalamazoo? I…
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Reading electronic books
There’s been a lot of discussion on the news and on the web lately about the influence of e-books on our brains, and on how we read and how we learn. And the net is so ephemeral, that I can’t find, now, an article that I read and found fascinating just a couple of days…
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Secrets & Lies
When I was in my early teens, my Sri Lankan aunt (my father’s sister), had my stars read by her astrologer. She asked me for the exact time of my birth, and the exact place I was born. And, after a few weeks, I got a folded piece of thin paper with quite a number…