Stuff I've Learned

I've been around a while and I've paid attention. You may find yourself interested in what I have to say about life -- or not. It's organized in bite-size pieces, mini-essays, each no more than a page. Sort of like my brain. Welcome. Enjoy!

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Saturday, November 19, 2011

Whatever happened to cocktail hour?

When I was a kid back in the 1950s, parents used to set aside a time at the end of the day, usually about 5 p.m., for what they called ...

Sunday, November 13, 2011

You can't undo love. Once you've been in love with someone, you can't undo it. As much as you might like to. Sorry, but what...

Saturday, November 12, 2011

I like ketchup.

I know this is sacrilege among those among us who fancy ourselves cooks/chefs. When I was in Paris once upon a time, a long time ago, they ...

Friday, November 11, 2011

Grandparents are a second opinion.

We all have parents. It's a given. Otherwise, we wouldn't be here. Some do a good job of raising us, some less so. But they are ...

Sunday, November 06, 2011

Learning another language is hard.

I remember taking Spanish in high school and enjoying mastering just a bit of it, like knowing how to say please or thanks and even learning...

Sunday, May 22, 2011

We all like gossip.

As humans, we all like to know what our fellow humans are up to. Hey, it's who we are, no? We know ourselves, sort of, but we know very ...

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Order from catalogues but be careful.

Being a guy, I don't like spending lots of time in stores, wandering the aisles, trying to decide whether this or that looks good on me ...

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David Hall: I write a lot, just because that's what writers do. We don't know what else to do with ourselves. I have a blog besides this one that you will never find unless you're really interested. It's stuffivelearned.blogspot.com. Good luck finding it.

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