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Brave Neuf World: May 2016

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BRAVE NEUF WORLD: Field Notes from Life's Little Moments. Monday, May 23, 2016. We hear a lot about "winning," don't we? It's a honor just to be nominated," the other nominees will say at their post-Oscars interview. Yeah, right. As if they won't be biting their pillows when they get home, muttering, "That no-good, hammy, scenery-chewer of an actor won MY Oscar! She's 21st century's next creative genius! Then reality intervenes with the opposite and equally insistent message, "Who are you kidding? I do f...

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Brave Neuf World: August 2015

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BRAVE NEUF WORLD: Field Notes from Life's Little Moments. Monday, August 31, 2015. You Gotta Have Heart OR: Home Ec is Where the Heart Is. If you are on Facebook, you've no doubt seen posts showing images from the 1950s or 60s, asking you to "Like" them if you recognize the topic, thus indicating that you are, in fact, an old fart. One such item I saw recently was this:. Heck, yeah, I remember Home Ec. I am not about to forget it. In one class, I accidentally let a pot of carrots boil dry and burn. T...

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Brave Neuf World: December 2016

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BRAVE NEUF WORLD: Field Notes from Life's Little Moments. Friday, December 30, 2016. Ken and I did not get around to writing our annual newsletter. Somehow, it wasn't "in us" this year. After 30 years of producing our droll song parodies, graphic mash-ups, and comic spoofs, we have hit the proverbial wall. Now it's almost New Years and it's almost too late. Nor has it been "in me" lately to write my blog, "Brave Neuf World! Maybe not so much. 63 years of live, pine-scented trees of all shapes and sizes, ...

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Brave Neuf World: September 2016

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BRAVE NEUF WORLD: Field Notes from Life's Little Moments. Friday, September 30, 2016. The day that I took down the horse posters in my bedroom and put up pictures of Paul McCartney, my mother had a conniption. "What's happened to my little girl? When I begged my dad to give me 10 bucks to buy a black leather cap like John Lennon's, he went berserk. "No daughter of mine is walking around in a man's cap, let alone something those hooligans wear! Can you even understand the words they're singing anyway?

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Brave Neuf World: July 2016

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BRAVE NEUF WORLD: Field Notes from Life's Little Moments. Sunday, July 24, 2016. Let Them Eat Cake! These are difficult days. And what are we doing? We're denying ourselves carbs. And sugar. And butter. Why, people? Oh, sure, calorie-laden, fat-drenched, lactose-rich, carb-dense, sugar-soaked, gluten-packed baked goods are bad for us. Okay, okay, you're right. But take heart, dear friends! I know I do! If I had presented THAT disaster to the GBBS judges, I would have been laughed off the show! Great care...

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Brave Neuf World: November 2015

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BRAVE NEUF WORLD: Field Notes from Life's Little Moments. Sunday, November 15, 2015. It's that time of year again. Yes, that joyous season when we grumble about retailers pushing Christmas at us way too early. "It's getting earlier every year! Goes the common complaint. Some experience this as performance anxiety. Some see it as crass commercialism. Others feel that it trivializes the spirit of peace and goodwill that Christmas represents. My feeling is, why fight it? Like tinsel on an evergreen, baby!

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Brave Neuf World: September 2015

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BRAVE NEUF WORLD: Field Notes from Life's Little Moments. Monday, September 14, 2015. Sock it to Me. Men are nearly impossible to buy for. Really, the repertoire of men's gifts is rather minimal. Shirts. Ties. Sweaters. Barbecue tools. Sure, you could get something for his hobby. But even hobbies have their limits. There are only so many Fender Telecasters you can buy for a man before the house begins to look like Don's Pawn Shop. It worked for my Dad and his brother, Bob. Here's how it went: Uncle B...

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Brave Neuf World: October 2016

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BRAVE NEUF WORLD: Field Notes from Life's Little Moments. Sunday, October 30, 2016. Hallowe'en was way scarier when I was a kid. We may not have planted today's fake boney graveyards on the lawn, or hung those gauzy ghouls from the porch rafters. We might not have decorated the front steps with. First of all, unless your mom was good at sewing, you wore a PAPER costume bought at the drug store! A Human Torch in seconds! Without even one single WARNING on the package! You looked more like a stuffed bug th...

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Brave Neuf World: February 2016

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BRAVE NEUF WORLD: Field Notes from Life's Little Moments. Saturday, February 13, 2016. Cold Enough for 'Ya? You can take the girl out of Winnipeg. But can you take Winnipeg out of the girl? 16 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind chill at 6 degrees. Now that's nothing to sneeze at. But what's the conversion to Celsius? Not bad. And what about that wind chill? Right out of the frozen north. Minus 21! NOW we're talking Winnipeg cold. I stepped outside and sucked in that clear, cold air! Our mothers told us. There ...