This Side of Fifty

A Monthly Letter of Musings & Meanderings

Friday, July 4, 2025

Thinking of Two Departed Boy Scout Friends: Gary and Glenn

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Gary and Glenn Favorite photos of them from FB One of the most important parts of my grade school years was my kindergarten through 7 th gr...
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Thursday, July 3, 2025

Chidem Inch: Folding paper and fanning coals, a fond farewell to print

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  Originally published in The Armenian Weekly . On June 25, 2025, it was announced that the Armenian-language Hairenik Weekly and the Engl...
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Monday, June 30, 2025

Old TV Shows

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An Iconic TV Franchise   This month, my interest in Law & Orders was not as strong as the first go around.   My interest shifted to TV W...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Is World Peace Possible?

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  On September 19, 2023, Azerbaijan began a military offensive that drove 120,000 Armenians out of Artsakh (Nogorno Karaba...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Living Room Memories

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  When I grew up, we were probably middle or lower-middle class.   The first three homes we lived in were flats.   The fou...

New Knees

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Not my Knee On June 9, 2025, I had my left knee replaced.   I had my right knee replaced on January 8 th . I had been walking around on wi...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

A Most Fulfilling Part of My Career

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  The Chronicle of Higher Education I have written often of my encore career as a full-time faculty member of North Park ...
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Tuesday, June 3, 2025

The Proof Reading Conundrum: Revisited

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AussieTranslations.com.au     I am the worst proofreader of my own writing.   It stems from a not very subconscious belief that, “How could ...
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