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• People who back into their own driveways are trying to tell us something.

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Your references to lipstick might mystify a Eugene audience. You won’t see many of us devoted to glamor and fashion, strutting in high heels and wearing lots of make-up — at least not many of our women.

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Well-designed pranks once a year can serve as a “stress test” to those systems. They remind us where the lines are, even if we wince watching them crossed.

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• I’m afraid all my children know about long-term commitment, they’re learning from their cell phone companies. It starts with romance, but ends with a contract “to have and to hold” — a hand-held device.

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My sons are coming for dinner, but I hope to give them something much more valuable and enduring than a meal and some gifts. Something I was never given, so today I’ll be giving it to myself as well. Finally, I will determine the difference between sweet potatoes and yams. Two different recipes — one [...]

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• How long before hunger meets greed and air travelers create a black market for in-flight tuna sandwiches? Can it be called an underground economy when the transactions take place 30,000 feet above ground?

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Everyone claims self-assuredly that newspapers cannot resist new media because they rely too heavily on written words. Why aren’t restaurant menus imperiled?

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Summertime is less mathematical and more poetic than summer itself. It steals a few days from May and a few from September to make its season fuller than the rest.

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Jurisdictionally speaking, northbound commuters are in Springfield and southbound motorists are in Eugene. That must mean something.

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Curiosity should be encouraged during the most hopeful season. Curiosity and hope propel us. Children are, after all, the future. We are the past. The present is up for grabs.

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