Merrick Alpert

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With optional grilled blueberry muffin

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Eating a Greek omelet at the Glory Days Diner in Greenwich

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Reviewing the economic and community development programs of various New England states as compared with Connecticut

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Listening to Bella punctuate her dream with growls

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Looking through the summer haze at the drawbridge

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Holding Wyatt as he falls asleep

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Sitting in the kyack with Jaxon watching the ospreys make the glorious drive

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Mapping industry competitors as part of the analysis of reviewing a company

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Planting in the remains of the day

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Attempting to remove the got-sprayed-by-a-skunk-last-night smell from Bella, who had another run in with Pepe Le Pew at midnight

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Wondering if, when the British Empire first began slipping away, any politician or government official stood up and said it out loud.

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Standing over Wyatt's crib, thinking about the day he goes away to college.

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are a threat to our national security and stop wasting lives and money on some 5th world rat hole.

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the words of our own commanding general and his staff show how hopeless this assinine 'nation building' strategy is. Let's kill those who...

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Just finishing reading the entire Rolling Stone article. Having spent a year traveling the state saying we need to get out of Afghanistan...

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Sweating beneath the brillant early night sky over the Seaport with its reds and blacks and purples and greys

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Waiting for the sun.

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Shaking my head at the sheen of oil on the Mystic River this morning under the I-95 bridge

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Looking at the masts, idle in the harbor, poking the night sky like twigs.

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Worried about the absence of clarity the past few days events send to our troops on the ground in Afghanistan