List on the 3s.  Day. Has a 3 in it. List. A little less than a week ago, a good friend posted a “redux” of a previous post called “This I Believe.” It was part of a phenomenon publicized by NPR a few years back (with roots in the 1950s attributed to Edward R. Murrow) [...]

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Hi everyone. Shiny here — blogging from my iPhone with a very intermittent cel phone signal. That’s because I’m spending the weekend (until Monday) in the far reaches of the Catoctin Mountains at the Pennsylvania/Maryland border. Yes, really. Feel free to cone up and visit. But it means that this list will be a short [...]

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“List on the 3s” is a meme like no other! Instead of asking the hard hitting questions like “What car did you drive in high school?” this meme delves into the complex and intellectual realm: If there’s a three in the date, I produce a list. Except when I don’t. Greetings from sunny Florida!  I [...]

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“List on the 3s:” Still going strong. Today is the 23rd. There’s a 3 in it. Hence — list. I love you all. Really. I do. And I love reading what you fine folks write on your blog. Or say in conversation. But there are some phrases which simply seem to irk me. It doesn’t [...]

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List on the 3s — you know the drill. On a day which has the number 3 in it, I produce a list. But first — a public service announcement:  It’s Passover. (Happy Passover!) I haven’t blogged in forever.   (Happy forever!) Life has really been a whirlwind over the past week and-a-half, and I simply [...]

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My dear friends: The Jewish holiday of Passover is nearly upon us — a time for reflection of our historical journey from slavery to freedom as well as of our perpetual journeys towards free will and free choice for ourselves and other inhabitants of our world.  The traditional Passover Seder, a symposium which retells the [...]

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“List on the 3s” has run into a bit of a snag today. Yes, it’s a day with the number “3″ tucked neatly inside.Yes, there’s a list. But it’s not Shiny’s list. You see, it’s one of those weeks which, due to poor planning, consists of three lists on the 3s: the 30th, 31st and [...]

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“List on the 3s?” You don’t know what “List on the 3s” is? Well — then it’s pretty dang lucky that I made the following flowchart using Gliffy: (Click to engrowify.) I like a lot of good songs. I mean — who doesn’t? There are many classic songs out there which define a generation of [...]

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“List on the 3s” is kind of like that guy in high school with the fedora — always thinking that he’s clever, but he just gets tiring after a while. And he pretends that every tabletop surface is a piano and starts playing it.  And one other major thing: he writes up a list of [...]

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“List on the 3s” occurs on ever calendar date on which I happen to include a list of some sort in my blog.  On those calendar dates, I try to make sure that I’ve included a 3 somewhere.  That makes everything fall into place. I know that many of you have wondered quite a few [...]

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