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Reviving Our Vintage Postcards Site

April 23, 2013

After a week-long soft launch, we’re pleased the announce the revival of CTPostcards.net, our site highlighting vintage Connecticut postcards. We’ve always enjoyed these cardboard slices of Connecticut tourism and history, and we’re going to share at least one a day. You’ll see tourist attractions, historic sites and monuments, restaurants, roadways, and sites that might make [...]

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Finding the Right Tool

March 24, 2013

Exploring a new open space area in our town this weekend, my rear-wheel drive truck went a little too far off-road and stuck in mud. I was able to rock the truck out of one messy area, but soon got stuck in deeper mud. Ultimately, my fiance brought up a shovel, and I was able [...]

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Swimming for a Good Cause

March 18, 2013

Despite 34-degree temperatures, an unpleasant breeze and snow flurries, I joined about 100 people in the Literacy Center of Milford’s Leprechaun Leap fundraiser Saturday afternoon. Overall, the experience of jumping into 39-degree water wasn’t as bad as I feared. I was toward the back of the group headed to the water, and people were rushing [...]

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Leaping (Into Cold Water) to Support Literacy Education

March 11, 2013

In support of Literacy Center of Milford’s important work, I’ll be leaping into the near-icy depths of Long Island Sound Saturday afternoon. A couple of friends are transforming lives by promoting adult literacy, and I’m happy to support the Center in this small (but chilly) way. Growing up, I remember the Reading is Fundamental commercials, [...]

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Happy Presidents Day

February 18, 2013
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Resiliency Isn’t Optional

February 14, 2013

If there’s one thing Blizzard of 2013 has reinforced, it’s the need to be more resilient in our business and personal lives. While we’ve seen examples of neighbors banding together to clear their unplowed roads, we’ve also seen less-desirable instances of short tempers and selfish behavior. Even as the snow was still falling, we saw [...]

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A Blizzard’s Punch

February 11, 2013

Weekend plans throughout New England were altered by a blizzard that dumped and swirled two or three feet. The forecasts had placed our section of southern Connecticut in the 12-18 range, but we wound up with 25 inches of fluffy fun. The new slow blower helped a lot, and we were lucky the power held. [...]

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Carpe Opportunities

January 31, 2013

In retrospect, it was probably inevitable that our new window-mounted bird feeder would attract more than juncos. The feeder sat, pretty much untouched, for about a week after we mounted it until the juncos found it. They seem to have it all to themselves until this morning, when they were chased away by a pair [...]

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It’s Not the Tools

January 3, 2013

Strolling through the navigation control room of the USS Intrepid aircraft carrier, we heard one of the visitors behind us describe the Vietnam-era technology as “primitive.” The technology was dated, but for us, it was more impressive to see how the Intrepid had evolved over its 40 years of service. The ship, launched in 1943, [...]

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Bradley Airport Run

November 30, 2012

  Quick run upstate yesterday afternoon to take a westbound friend to Bradley Airport in Windsor Locks, CT. For people in Connecticut and western Mass., using Bradley helps eliminate trips to the New York and Boston airports (I swore off LGA one time when the trip from the airport to southern Connecticut took longer than [...]

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