Mike Fink
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It’s midsummer and the dog days are upon us. A nice air-conditioned cinema showing an excellent documentary can make that heat much more bearable.
“Won’t You Be My …
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Mike Fink
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8/9/18
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The numbers on our street don’t make obvious sense: our house hides in plain view. When those trucks bearing cartons have a delivery for number 12, the drivers give up in despair and …
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Mike Fink
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5/27/18
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Through amazon.com – not a bookstore – I was able to access “The ‘Normal’ Child,” the self-published autobiography of an old acquaintance, Cindy Halpern. …
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Mike Fink
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4/19/18
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Somehow a Florida golf ball found its way into my minimal luggage. I took it out on a whim and briefly bounced it among my receipts on my accountant’s table as I reviewed the events of the …
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Mike Fink
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3/14/18
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I was born in the first year of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency. “This generation has a rendezvous with destiny” he declared in one of his fireside chats.
I was …
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Mike Fink
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2/15/18
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I like to link all our holidays, major and minor, to the seasons of each year and to our life in general. As sure as the months rush by like traffic on Route 95, Hanukkah is coming, and I look …
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Mike Fink
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11/9/17
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I’m supposed to require “research” projects from the students in my first-semester journalism elective at Rhode Island School of Design. My first question to the students is, …
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Mike Fink
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10/16/17
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It came and it went, after a generous spread of matinee showings at the Avon. And it was mercifully succinct, coming in at just a few minutes under the classic 90-minute tradition of Old …
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Mike Fink
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9/25/17
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A tiny toad appeared like a living clump of good soil among the wildflowers under the porch gutter. It charmed us!
A monarch butterfly zigged and zagged at the overgrown …
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Mike Fink
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9/7/17
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It wasn’t quite an ideal day for a cruise in Newport, but somehow it worked out splendidly. Patricia and her daughter, Liza, memorialized the life and the romance of Jim Weiss aboard the Rum …
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Mike Fink
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6/9/17
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