Blog Entries

I've been business blogging for our company on www.thequincygroup.net, posting once a week since June. The blogs are about small business management and brokering, but are (hopefully) amusing as well. Since the COVID stay-at-home/social distancing rules began, I've dropped the business suggestions and gone strictly for the laughs. Check them ...
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One of the first things I did when I moved west in ’72 was to visit the planetarium at a local community college. “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” played as the apparatus rose from the floor and the room darkened. It thrilled me. I was also watching a lot of Star Trek ...
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I’ve been thinking a lot about cookies, in part because they always seem like a good idea, and also because sister Barbie made Mom’s candy cane cookies last Christmas. Mom won a prize for that recipe. Here’s the picture that was on the front page of a newspaper, back when ...
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I rarely spilled on myself after graduating from the high chair. That is until I turned 60, when I became the Niagara Falls of spillage.What is it about a clean, pressed white blouse or shirt and colorful greasy food? There's a magnetic attraction there, something that should be studied on ...
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When I was still living at home in my mid-twenties, I bought a furry, life-like puppet that was 24 inches from ear-tips to back feet and named him "Bigwig" to honor "Watership Down," my favorite book at the time. It was a ridiculous and costly purchase given my circumstances, but ...
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