By C.D. ALLEN
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With apologies to e-i-c Lisa, this is not the column I promised her for today. I wrote myself into a corner and couldn’t figure out how to salvage it in enough time to get this on the site. If I can make it make sense, I will recycle that one for […]

By C.D. ALLEN
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I haven’t been at work for the last week.
My roommate (the snake in the car guy who it from my home town) told a few weeks ago that he was driving back for a long week end. That long weekend was last week. His dad’s birthday was in there somewhere. […]

By C.D. Allen
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About three months ago I acquired a new obsession – star notes. Being a collector by nature (as I think most people are to some degree), I can’t help myself. I now compulsively check all the money I handle. I’ve showed them to the people at the stores I frequent […]

By C.D. ALLEN
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Still with me?
I’m not exactly sure how old I was but I remember being taught the difference between concrete and abstract ideas at a very early age. I think it was English class and was the first time I had ever even considered that something could be both real and unreal. […]

By C.D. ALLEN
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Two weeks ago, before Independence Day, I wrote that I wanted to write more about time but had run out of room. For all you lucky people that have been waiting anxiously for me to continue – Here we go…
All of our ideas about our selves, our environment and also about our […]

C.D. Allen
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A very wise and very American man once said, “Freedom is free of the need to be free.”
This year, today, is the 231st anniversary of America’s independence from Great Britain.  This is the day that over two centuries ago the founders of this country signed the Declaration of Independence.  They decided they would be […]