BIRDS OF NANTUCKET
A bird with a rash
by Kenneth Turner Blackshaw
      T o my dear grandmother, 'Nana' Grace Turner, these were all 'wild canaries.' We had a perfectly wonderful 'tame' canary that sang his little heart out from his cage in the parlor so I was excited with the idea there could be wild ones on our island. Perhaps, it led me into a study of birds that has brightened my whole life.
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Technological Overload
      I was in a meeting in New York City recently with three other individuals. That brought the total number of people sitting around the conference table to four. And as I looked around the table, I was absolutely blown away by the sheer amount of technology that surrounded us. Three BlackBerries, two iPhones, two other cellular phones, six (count 'em!
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