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On the Boardwalk
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The Brainless Summer
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Nothing Really Big Ever Happened Here
May 6, 2013 · kstaff
As a graduate student in linguistics at SDSU in the spring of 1982, the guest speaker at our spring colloquium was Joseph Greenberg, a noted specialist in language universals and language typology. Like many such specialists, he had a particular …
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Pine Cone Hand Grenades
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Valentine's Day? Bah! Humbug!
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Superior, and the Magic Triangle
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Christmas of '87
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Auld Acquaintance
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The Cuban Crisis
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Happenings Four Decades Time Ago
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The Cookie Jar
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Mustard Flowers and Licorice Plants
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Davy Jones
March 15, 2012 · kstaff
On the last day of last month, on the other side of the continent from our San Diego, not far from the Atlantic coast of our nation's only tropical mainland state, an older middle-aged man was encountered in his car, …
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The Kid Who Cried
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Only in the '70s Were the '60s Uncool
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Toot a Hollow Horn
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Alone in the Wide Wide World
June 28, 2011 · kstaff
My dad passed on last Tuesday, June 21st, following mom by a month short of five years. He was 90 and had lived a good life, almost exactly half of it in the family house in Rolando that we'd moved …
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The Rain Dance
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At The Fair