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Grocery Shoppers’ ‘Super Bowl’

I really look forward to the Super Bowl each year. Not because it’s a time honored titanic struggle…a clash between two superior teams of finely honed athletes risking life and limb to achieve the zenith of athletic…

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2019 Christmas

Dear Family & Friends, To quote William Shakespeare’s Henry V: “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more!”  Henry V had an easier time dying from dysentery than the Franklin’s did surviving this year. In…

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Gone…in a Flash

Remember ‘flash mobs?’ They were a big deal amongst the younger, computer-connected set awhile back. For those of you who missed this phenomenon, ‘flash mobs’ involved individuals assembling at a designated public place, doing something random…

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CEO of My Refrigerator

I’m not good at corporate finances. My husband explains spreadsheets to me using his “Nordstrom Postulate,” which is much silliness about what you’re really paying when you buy a dress on sale and use your credit…

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My Laundro-Mate

For men, laundry is like a basketball game where they strip naked and, while scratching themselves around their private parts, attempt jump shots which land about a foot short of the laundry hamper. Which is pretty…

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