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Vain hopes for 2018

January 1, 2018 by Dave Knadler

Last night we headed for bed just before midnight. The New Year’s Eve gunfire was like the opening battle scene in “Saving Private Ryan,” to the point that the dog followed us upstairs to cower by the bed. My wife asked me what my hopes for 2018 might be. She asks things like that. […]

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Morning on the water

January 1, 2015 by Dave Knadler

kayaking thomas creek florida

Today we took the kayaks out to Thomas Creek, which is as a good a way as any to start out a new year. Our friends Ryan and Jackie joined us for an easy paddle on glassy water, a four-mile round-trip under cloudy skies. Temperature was a little under 60 — a pleasant coolness […]

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So much for Christmas

January 1, 2014 by Dave Knadler

christmas tree left at the curb

Here’s a sad sight on New Year’s Day: a fully trimmed Christmas tree taken out with the trash. I know some people get sick to death of holiday details, but wouldn’t you want to save some of those ornaments? No doubt there’s a story here that I really don’t want to know. As I’ve […]

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Happy New Year. Even if it isn’t.

December 31, 2013 by Dave Knadler

Should auld acquaintance be forgot? Probably not, but life goes on, you know? One of the few things I really loved about the movie When Harry Met Sally was Billy Crystal’s frank admission that he didn’t know what the hell “Auld Lang Syne” was supposed to mean. I don’t either. But if I’ve had […]

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I recently had a heart attack

January 7, 2013 by Dave Knadler

Remember that scene toward the end of Dr. Zhivago, when Yuri sees Lara out a trolley window and rushes after her, only to collapse in the street and die? Now that’s a heart attack. My own was less cinematic. It started as a dull ache high in the chest on the last day of […]

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For 2013, a few small repairs

December 31, 2012 by Dave Knadler

New Year’s resolutions have a half-life of about 14 days. So you can’t make them just once a year and expect them to hold. You have to make the same ones every single day. Eventually, the resolutions become habits. And the habits become the sturdy lumber with which you build a better boat. Or […]

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The guns of New Year’s

January 1, 2012 by Dave Knadler

The New Year is happy so far: I am beginning it with no hangover. Last night we ushered out the old year by watching a lightly-attended showing of War Horse. Later at home we viewed brief snippets of the movies Charade and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. We opened a bottle of cheap bubbly […]

Filed Under: Movies, new year's

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