Logo of Learning Edge A while ago Colleen the consummate communicator “invited” me (and some other pals) to follow her lead and write about our Learning Edge (whatever that is). She got the notion from a guy called Adam Kayce: “His thought is that growth is contingent on continuous learning, and it’s up to each of u...

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Burned over stretch of riverbank, still smoking, with debris all over the ground.

Someone must have dropped a cigarette down by the river a couple of days ago. Or maybe they were cooking up their dope and things got careless. Either way, the place was a smoking wreck yesterday morning. I’d love to inventory the crap the plants hide. No, actually, I wouldn’t. Sometimes I dream o...

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I’m sure the good burghers of Rome, NY, are perfectly happy with this report in the [Utica Observer-Dispatch]http://www.uticaod.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070712/NEWS/70712015

In other news, council members voted to designate a section of East Rome as the "Little Italy District."
Streets...

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Even before I’d seen the two good comments on yesterday’s post I was worrying about whether I had given a true picture.1 Maybe you think I don’t like Rome, that I’m itching to return? Well, no. I do like Rome.

Last night, walking Mel, I did a little grocery shopping. Among the purchases, a cou...

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Of course you can't go back; but -- oh great: I start writing in one spare minute and my mother interrupts. so here I am more than a day later trying to remember how I had planned to proceed and lamenting a lost mobile phone and a broken back tooth. The phone is surely on the floor of the rental car...

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