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The Wide Angle: No food for me, no sleep for you

Charlie Chaplin once said: “He who feeds a hungry animal feeds his own soul.” Meanwhile, a renowned layabout ...

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The Wide Angle: My love of history and ruining parties

As some of you may be aware, part of my education in college was achieving a major in ...

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The Wide Angle: The joy of cooking over an open flame — outside

There’s just something about cooking over an open flame that screams — SUMMER! Well it would, if said ...

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The Wide Angle: Perfectly good set of holes

It was late Tuesday night, and I had just finished a couple hours at the office and wrapped ...

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The Wide Angle: Don’t ask cats for help when it comes to physics

The entirety of Monday was something of a long trial that while not unpleasant, was time consuming in ...

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The Wide Angle: Baseball giveth and baseball taketh away … way, way back

It’s a special time of year when the snow leaves us (he says somewhat ironically given the forecast ...

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The Wide Angle: Separation of pizza and pineapple

These are tough times that require tough conversations. Conversations of things that we, as Americans, all have to ...

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The Wide Angle: Not what I remembered

I recently found myself in something of an old stomping ground when I had to spend some time ...

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The Wide Angle: Taking the office to the back roads

I’ve never been much of an office kind of guy. The idea of sitting in a constrained area, ...

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The Wide Angle: It looks like it’s only a matter of time at this point

Anyone who have been longtime readers of this column, or simply have nothing better to do for 15 ...

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The Wide Angle: Roaming the halls after school

Anybody who has grown up across different generations will inevitably have a slightly different definition of the word ...

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The Wide Angle: Frigid temps can offer perspective

Unless you missed the current weather updates on Facebook by people taking pictures of thermometers and dashboard readouts, ...

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The Wide Angle: Throw back to early arcades

I wasn’t entirely sure what I would be walking into last Thursday night when I arrived at Main ...

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The Wide Angle: Science by explosion

By now, more than a few of you should know (let’s be frank here — besides Frank there ...

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The Wide Angle: Resolving to create less screen time

I’m not sure if you’ve noticed or not, but with all the subtlety of using a hammer to  ...

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