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Wanderings – Every community needs a curmudgeon

December 31, 2025 Phillip Blancher

Every village or community needs a curmudgeon. Most dictionaries define a curmudgeon as an ill-tempered, cranky person who does nothing but complain. According to stereotypes, this is the domain of the older man, seasoned by […]

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Wanderings – Is technology making us too connected?

December 10, 2025 Phillip Blancher

Canadian academic and philosopher Marshall McLuhan once wrote about technology that “we shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” What he meant by this is that we create tools to do things, but […]

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