Jessie Raymond
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Jessie Raymond: My file is lost, but I will recover
I’m an optimist. So a few weeks ago, when my laptop seized up, I felt inconvenienced but not panicked. These things happen.
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Jessie Raymond: A lot of work for a little leisure
A few weeks ago, Mark and I bought a little fishing boat. Sold as an “inflatable kayak,” it’s basically a pair of 12-foot blowup pontoons with five aluminum…
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Jessie Raymond: Forecast calls for more technology
In the old days, people got their weather forecasts by looking out toward the pasture to see if the cows were lying down. Now we have weather apps.…
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Jessie Raymond: Busy columnist grants interview
Thank you, Addison Independent reporter, for having me come in for a sit-down interview. I’m afraid I only have a few minutes; as you know, this is a…
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Jessie Raymond: Spats just not the same anymore
Halfway through last week’s heat wave, and after 32 years of procrastination, Mark and I finally did it: we put in an air conditioner. For a moment, we…
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Jessie Raymond: Kitchen scale is ‘weigh’ better
When it comes to measuring stuff, I belong to the school of “close enough.” I don’t care about precision. It’s part of my charm.
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Jessie Raymond: My auto relationship has ‘shifted’
Time changes a person. I was recently thinking about the first car I ever bought, a Datsun B310 “fastback” coupe, and how carefree I was back in my…
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Jessie Raymond: Budding birder seeks camaraderie
As husbands go, Mark does all right. But lately I’m finding he’s letting me down in one important way: He shows less enthusiasm for wild birds than I…
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Jessie Raymond: Lazy gardener lands new method
Over the winter, I heard about an intriguing vegetable-growing technique called “lazy gardening.” As far as I knew, that was the kind of gardening I’d been doing for…
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Jessie Raymond: Aspiring house hen expands her range
I knew our hen Monique was different from other birds. But if you had told me when we got her two years ago that she would one day start…