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The Bletchley Code Breakers on the Eve of the Cold War

Posted on May 08, 2014 | by glonigro | Comments Off

Last spring, the three-part miniseries The Bletchley Circle aired on PBS. Set in England in 1951, the show’s first season imagined what
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Posted on Mar 07, 2014 | by glonigro | Comments Off

The 1959 Hitchcock movie “North by Northwest” includes a famous scene involving a cropduster flying over open fields. Back then, the
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Posted on Jan 07, 2014 | by glonigro | Comments Off

Four years ago, I embarked on an entrepreneurial adventure in direct sales. I started from scratch, without professional sales training or
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Posted on Dec 24, 2013 | by glonigro | Comments Off

For the last few years, my first order of the day on Christmas Eve has been to shop for the food
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Posted on Dec 12, 2013 | by glonigro | Comments Off

The holiday season is upon us, and I’m looking forward to all the traditions that go along with this time of
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Posted on Oct 15, 2013 | by glonigro | Comments Off

One of my favorite pastimes is discovering secret oases and hidden gems in and around the city. Last month I visited the
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Posted on Aug 27, 2013 | by glonigro | Comments Off

Summer is waning and with Labor Day weekend around the corner, I’ve been feeling nostalgic. Some days when it’s warm and I
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Posted on Jul 15, 2013 | by glonigro | Comments Off

A couple of weeks ago I organized an excursion into New York City, built around a day pass I’d gotten from
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Posted on Jun 30, 2013 | by glonigro | Comments Off

The first time I met Natasha was in 2009. I was walking home from the light rail and saw a bright
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Posted on Jun 18, 2013 | by glonigro | 6 Comments

Yesterday I embarked on a new adventure: attending my first meetup in Greenwich Village for tea lovers. This was the second
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