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Are you proud of your towels
LISTEN Ralph Gardner Jr. The news is often so dire these days that my wife turns off the car radio and plays a podcast instead. It’s even traumatic to learn the latest about plagues, shootings and...
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Comfort and Joy
LISTEN Ralph Gardner Jr./ A diorama made by his daughter Lucy hangs on the author’s Christmas tree. The dirty little secret of holiday journalism is that it’s written days, weeks even months in...
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Get back!
LISTEN There are lots of ways to measure success in life. But I like to think that one of them is raising children that share your cultural preferences. Two recent events filled me with pride, though...
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My CSA is in Wyoming
LISTEN Photo Courtesy Of Taste Of The Wind/Chris Edwards and BJ Bender ride the range Santa brought me some nice gifts this year. Hey, thanks for asking! They included a metal detector to scour our...
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‘DIY’ skipped the boomer generation. In my case, that’s just as well
Opinion, Jan 15, 2022 Lucy Gardner works on a cookbook illustration.PHOTO PROVIDED BY RALPH GARDNER JR. GHENT, N.Y. — A few years ago an editor of mine referred to “DIY” in regard to the subject of...
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Everyday Silver
LISTEN Ralph Gardner JR./The writer’s silverware drawer Have you given your silverware drawer much thought lately? I didn’t think so. Maybe there’s not a lot happening in yours, but there is in ours....
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When workers went out to lunch
LISTEN Photo Courtesy Of The Author The writer testing Google Glass at Google’s NYC headquarters in 2013. Fair warning: The following commentary is self-congratulatory and may not be appropriate for...
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The argument for chickadees
LISTEN If you were limited to one beverage for the rest of your life what would it be? As much as I enjoy the complexity of single malt scotch and am of the immutable belief that nothing hits the...
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The value of Tiffany money
February 12, 2022 With regard to Tiffany & Co. items that were in his family, the author has wrestled with the price of sentimentality.PHOTO PROVIDED BY RALPH GARDNER JR. I should have known it...
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I’d rather be skiing
LISTEN I wasn’t supposed to be sitting here writing this commentary. I was supposed to be skiing in Vermont and doing some male bonding. But a balky back changed my plans without asking me first. I...
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My plastic bag problem
LISTEN I don’t typically read the labels on products, especially those I’m not planning to digest. But the label splashed across a newly purchased spray bottle of Windex was impossible to miss....
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Mr. Currant
LISTEN Ralph Gardner, Jr./Greg Quinn at his currant farm in Staatsburg,NY I can’t remember how the subject of currants came up. I’m not talking about electrical currents or current events. I’m...
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After A mice ate a priceless family heirloom, I took matters into my own hands
GHENT, N.Y. — There’s an attractive rug in our guest bedroom. I don’t know what kind of rug it is, but it’s been in our family a long time. I found a photo of it sitting in my grandparents’...
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Forever Prepping
LISTEN I pride myself on being slightly ahead of the curve in matters relating to self-preservation. In the pandemic’s earliest days I bought a freezer for the basement before they sold out. The...
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Togo
LISTEN Ralph Gardner, Jr. /Cover of “Togo” by Philip Hecksher Between wars and epidemics I’ve lately found myself escaping into literature. Not all the time. My weekly iPhone activity statistics,...
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Who has the most interesting background when it comes to news reporting via...
By Ralph Gardner Jr. March 25, 2022 GHENT, N.Y. — A friend of mine who has many virtues, though I’ve never considered acute observations skills among them, was discussing a subject, one might go...
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Here’s my top pick
By Ralph Gardner Jr. April 9, 2022 PHOTO PROVIDED BY BRANDON BLINKENBERG Maybe it’s my time of life or the state of geopolitics, but I find myself taking refuge in stories that avoid bad news. As far...
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On the road, finally.
April 23, 2022 Ralph and Deborah Gardner with movie director Henry Jaglom, center, in Santa Monica, Calif. PHOTO PROVIDED BY RALPH GARDNER JR. GHENT, N.Y. — My wife is calling our...
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Meet the redwoods
LISTEN • 5:25 Ralph Gardner Jr. /The Redwood forest above Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn Have you ever experienced this: you’re walking down the street, or some sort of artery, when your eyes rest on a...
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The unambitious tourist
LISTEN • 5:22 Ralph Gardner Jr./Big Sur, California As we’ve made our way up the California coastline into Oregon and now Washington State friends and strangers have expressed their admiration for our...
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