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(NOT SO) SIMPLE STUFF: Don't victimize Sam Nordquist twice

(NOT SO) SIMPLE STUFF: Don't victimize Sam Nordquist twice
26.02.2025 4

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SIMPLE STUFF: You gotta have pluck

11.02.2025 5

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SIMPLE STUFF: Too much technology, or am I just too old?

28.01.2025 10

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SIMPLE STUFF: Happy anniversary, Louise

14.01.2025 6

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SIMPLE STUFF: What have I learned this year?

It’s been a year of learning, change and acceptance for me, as it probably has been for many of you as well. I am a little bit glad to see 2024 in...

31.12.2024 3

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SIMPLE STUFF: I don't need a celebrity psychiatrist to analyze Luigi Mangione

As an editor of some of the specialty pages in this newspaper, I get story pitches all the time. Some are good, local fodder, and others are just...

17.12.2024 4

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SIMPLE STUFF: I don't need a celebrity psychiatrist to analyze Luigi Margione

As an editor of some of the specialty pages in this newspaper, I get story pitches all the time. Some are good, local fodder, and others are just...

17.12.2024 6

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SIMPLE STUFF: What we can learn from a 4-year-old

Saturday was the last day of the season at the Windmill Farm and Craft Market south of Penn Yan. It’s where my store, The Reading Rooster, has...

03.12.2024 6

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SIMPLE STUFF: 'Someone is thirsty; you give ’em a drink. It's pretty basic stuff.'

The headline quote above comes from my friend, Arlo Guthrie, the now-retired folk singer. For more than three decades, through his nonprofit...

19.11.2024 3

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SIMPLE STUFF: Get out and vote

I had a different “Simple Stuff” ready for today before I realized my next column would run Election Day. I feel obligated to write one instead...

05.11.2024 2

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SIMPLE STUFF: Read the paper – every day

A friend of mine took a great photo of the big lighthouse at Sodus Point with some reeds in the foreground. I told him to send it to the paper,...

23.10.2024 10

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SIMPLE STUFF: This week, a bunch of stuff

08.10.2024 20

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SIMPLE STUFF: Keeping my (dry) sense of humor

Disregard the flaws in the design. That’s a line from Warren Haynes’ new song, “This Life As We Know It.” The song celebrates how we’ve...

24.09.2024 2

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SIMPLE STUFF: Show up, and worry about the rest later

Most every day, on my commute to the Finger Lakes Times, as I drive west of the Waterloo village, I see a guy in his 20s who I call “Walking Man.”...

10.09.2024 3

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(Not So) SIMPLE STUFF: The heart of the matter

Dr. Wilfredo Cruz of Farmington, my doctor, asked me to write this column. He said what happened to me could happen to anyone. I was very lucky, he...

13.08.2024 10

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SIMPLE STUFF: My (Katy's) new puppy

You may recall that I love dogs. I have three right now, and they’re lovely, but they are getting old. Gracie Reneè, a lab mix, is going on 15;...

30.07.2024 3

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SIMPLE STUFF: Wise words from an ex-Prez

Justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love. Someone asked former President Jimmy Carter what he thought were the most important things...

16.07.2024 1

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