Imagination in words and art

"I only know what I read in the newspapers"


Columns (written for the Barrington (R.I.) Times

* Barrington Man Buys Car
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Christmas Lemons -- ever get one of these duds? (12/12/01)
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The age of non-security -- Face-recognition systems come in handy when buying salami
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Green grows the grass -- " I hope my wife doesn't read this column...." (6/1/01)
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Keeping the devil from the door -- "Knew a guy named Don, had the same first name as me." (4/2/01)
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50 years of hell -- only the dedicated could survive this (1/19/01)
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The Christmas baby -- "Everyone has a favorite Christmas story. This one is mine..." (12/20/00)
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Is it me or the rest of the planet? (11/14/00)
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Standing at the brink (9/11/00)
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Big tobacco's war: No sympathy, no surrender (8/16/00)
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Writing in the year 2000 (7/14/00)
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The second chance we rarely get (6/21/00)
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When government fails there's always the people (6/1/00)
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Three weddings -- and a couple of funerals (4/11/00)
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How to spend your anniversary behind bars (3/5/00)
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Jewels in the junkyard (2/7/00)
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Where you came from; what you've done (1/20/00)
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The sound of silence in a sea of noise (1/12/00)
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The dogs of Christmas (12/10/99)
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My favorite Don Smith story (11/12/99)
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Security was a green Oldsmobile (9/24/99)
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Remembering a father who wasn't always there (7/14/99)
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Answers, answers, but where are the questions? (4/16/99)
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For the Love of the Game .
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Does Anybody Here Remember Jim Croce?
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Once Upon a Christmas Dreary
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Gentleman Joe -- Paterno, that is.
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The Hippie Killer -- My life and times with "the Unicorn," Ira Einhorn
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The Town that Bean Built