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1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2Don’t Sing, Scarf, or Spit
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https://www.thesmartset.com/dont-sing-scarf-or-spit/#respondThu, 18 Apr 2024 14:28:17 +0000https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=64367Culture, if we can still call it that, has taken a definite downward turn in the last couple of decades. Tee shirts with I HATE YOUR F—ING MASK (the F word spelled out) printed in large letters on the front. Texting at the dinner table. Parents using profanity to children. Being honked and tailgated while […]
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https://www.thesmartset.com/town-and-country/#respondThu, 11 Apr 2024 11:30:00 +0000https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=64372Some time ago, I embarked on a personal reading project: An informal survey of books that once had been widely read — so widely read, in fact, that they had earned their place in the literary lexicon. The criteria for my project did have certain strictures. The operative word was once. The contents of these […]
]]>https://www.thesmartset.com/town-and-country/feed/0Daisy Goodwill and the Montana Rockies
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https://www.thesmartset.com/daisy-goodwill-and-the-montana-rockies/#commentsMon, 18 Mar 2024 11:30:00 +0000https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=64245I remember a lake rimmed with lily pads; a meadow filled with sun. The uphill stretch of trail where I stepped round a bend and came eyeball to eyeball with a mountain goat. Now, the goat may have been a bighorn sheep. It wasn’t the curve of the horns, so much, or the softness of […]