Let’s face it—coffee is everywhere. Getting gas? Have a cup. Stocking up on groceries? Grab a coffee to go. Sitting in a lounge somewhere waiting for an oil change or for your daughter to give birth? The coffee is on
us. Depositing checks at the bank? Try the Italian roast in our new instant espresso machine, or get this free coffee maker when opening a debit card account. …
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Today is our son Chas’ 19th birthday. He’s out doing what he wants to be doing — hiking the Appalachian Trail.
A year ago Chas decided to do what the British call a gap year — a year off between high school and college. He wanted to study music, guitar in particular, achieve his Levels 1 and 2 snowboard instructor certifications in Canada — and hike the Appalachian Trail. …
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When the Chinese delegation arrives in Pittsburgh for the G-20 summit, you could greet them with, “Ni chi fan le mei yo?”—Mandarin literally meaning, “Have you eaten yet?”
The expression is really more of a polite salutation, much like “How are you?” …
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I like to write articles from personal experience that make people laugh. So when my son got swine flu this past week, I was thinking to myself, what could I write about swine flu that is funny. The conclusion I came to is that there is nothing really funny about swine flu. …
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Close your eyes, pretend you are at the wheel of your car (turn your radio up and your cell phone off), and take an imaginary drive through history and then back to the future, starting at Penn Circle and heading west down the Baum Boulevard-Centre Avenue corridor to “see” the latest developments along the main arteries of the East End. …
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If a cemetery can be romantic, Allegheny Cemetery in Lawrenceville is the ultimate setting. Situated on the southern slope of the Allegheny River, its rolling hills, winding roads, ponds, wildlife, and natural beauty provide a picturesque and contemplative backdrop in which to pay respect to those who have gone before us. …
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It was hot, even for summer time in Central America. The hospital wards were crowded. The beds were crammed together, with the head of one bed touching the foot of the next.With just one bathroom for the whole floor, there was little privacy. And all the patients there were suffering from the pain of severe arthritis. …
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I was a stay-at-home dad for 10 years, when the kids were little. It didn’t seem so simple at the time. I remember the drill:
Get up early, get our three children ready for school, find all the parts to their school uniforms, make breakfast and pack lunches (one for a vegetarian), pick up some other neighborhood kids in the carpool, drop them off at school, …
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When a middle-aged Roy Hobbs, played by Robert Redford in the movie The Natural, shows up in the dugout of the New York Knights after a 16-year interruption in his baseball career, the manager, Pop Fisher (Wilford Brimley), looks over to him and says, “Fella, you don’t start playing baseball at your age. You retire.” …
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East End – Geek’s End Spring 2007 In its first issue of 2007, Wired magazine ranked Pittsburgh seventh among the “10 Top Tech Towns,” citing Carnegie Mellon University’s computer science school and Google Pittsburgh’s new Oakland office as the two primary reasons. Perhaps the ranking should have more specifically gone to “Pittsburgh’s East End,” where
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