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“How many times have you eaten biscuits and gravy,” Professor Hirschfield asked Chief Joseph Paledeer while holding open the door to leave Frank’s Diner in Shawnee Ferry, Delaware. “Before ...

“I see you are still as reticent as ever,” Spencer Jessie said as he smiled at his old friend Joseph Paledeer. Professor Hirschfield laughed. “He wasn’t like this on the plane. He was flirting ...

“What can I get you gentlemen?” Marge asked pulling a pencil from her beehive hairdo and smacking her chewing gum. “You’re not from around here, are you?” The man on the right side of the ...

At this time of the year most of the major professional sports are playing games. (This blog was written in mid-October but delayed until mid-December.) The baseball playoffs are under way. Football ...

Sometimes there are no words to comfort someone who has lost a loved one. Not from me, anyway. Other people are better at providing wisdom. I don’t remember the first time I met Leon Lasota, ...