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The Dos and Don’ts of Social Drinking [by Michael Fontaine]
Social drinking can be a lot of fun. It can also be a major source of stress and anxiety, and a gateway to problem drinking. Not good. As I mentioned in my first post,…
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“More Coffee” [by Peter Ferry]
"Someone should be writing about all of this,” she said. “I bet a lot of people are.” “Are you?” “Not yet.” “Too close to the trees?” “Something like that. Maybe I’ll try today.” “Coffee?”…
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We Have Sex Education. Should We Teach Drinking Education, Too? [By Michael Fontaine]
It sounds heretical to even ask, doesn't it? In this world of ours, though, we’ve grudgingly come to admit that a few things that seem instinctive, really should be taught. Sex is one. Driving…
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On the Air with Bruce Kawin in the 1960s: Ashbery, Koch, Allen Ginsberg, Ayn Rand (!), & almost O’Hara
Ed. note: This is part two of "Borges and the Camels" by Bruce Kawin. When I took Kenneth Koch's class and for a few years afterward, I had a show on Columbia's student radio…
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Mike Fontaine, guest author April 13-17
Michael and Lola This week we welcome Mike Fontaine as our guest author. Mike is Professor of Classics at Cornell University, in the heart of New York State's Finger Lakes wine region. He specializes…
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Social Distancing as Modeled by Baseball Players [by Alan Ziegler]
Before the shutdown of all sports, I was able to enlist major league baseball players to demonstrate good and bad examples of social distancing. 1) This is a good, basic application of six-feet rule.…
