The dream with the weird airline
I woke up this morning from a dream in which I disembarked from an airliner and noticed at the next gate an airplane…
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Big movies from the 70s, 80s and 90s I really should have seen but somehow never did
By way of confession, here are movies I should have seen but didn’t: 48 HrsAgainst All OddsAnnie HallBack to the FutureBeachesThe BodyguardBraveheartChildren of…
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My dinosaur
Earlier today, I found myself prostrate with guilt when I realized that, as a child, I had chosen a favorite dinosaur not because…
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Geographic voices
I would be hard pressed to say which narrator of National Geographic television specials was the best. It is therefore fortunate that no…
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Cucina Clayarini — a ONE-NIGHT dining event
Do you remember the enchanted April when you found love on a hillside outside Bologna? You do? Meraviglioso! Come to Cucina Clayarini and…
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Reader mailbox
(Caution: contains coarse language) Here at clayrussell.com we love our readers and appreciate it when they take the time to let us know…
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New Year’s Eve
Crowds of people are not my idea of a good time. I like my space and I don’t like noise. Crowds of drunk…
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When the girls fell through Daddy’s shower door
Hollywood Park, Texas, teemed with children in the early 1970s but my playtime involved only a handful of them. Beverly and Suzie, who…
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Medianoche
There are people who go gaga for sandwiches. You don’t have to look very far to find folks who live for grilled cheese…
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It’s ROWWWWWW!
I am not much for competition in any form or forum, but in the kitchen it appeals to me even less. The proper…
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