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Mark Patinkin

mark patinkin 07/11/2009

Mark Patinkin: Earn your Ph.D. in ‘Tweets’
I came across a telling sign of the times.

07/07/2009

Mark Patinkin: Our pets treat us like dogs
A new poll by a Web site called Petside.com has discovered something interesting.

07/05/2009

Mark Patinkin: Boy who once faced death still seizing life with a passion
I turned onto College Road, as I had done so often years before, and right away it brought me back to my first visit to Andrew Bateson here on this cozy block in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Providence. He was only 8 then, in 1999, and still doing little boy things, in particular youth ice hockey, which is what brought me there. I was intrigued by how a child who had lost two legs just below the knee could have learned to skate.

06/30/2009

Mark Patinkin: Madoff gets life; Jackson, Fawcett get cut short
Thoughts at Large:

06/28/2009

Columnist Mark Patinkin: Many things are unnecessary — but I want them
Along with liberty, I think frugality is a bedrock American trait. I would never flaunt expensive clothes, but often boast of the shirts I got from Building 19.

06/27/2009

Mark Patinkin: My specialized skills are no longer needed
I was watching television the other day when the picture began to get jagged. It does that sometimes — clearly a problem with the cable signal.

06/23/2009

Mark Patinkin: You know a guy who’ll pass these bills up at the State House?
I saw that the General Assembly is racing to the end of its legislative session with thousands of bills backlogged, but only 51 passed as of the weekend. The key issues this year have ranged from gay marriage to indoor prostitution to a ban on cell phones while driving.

06/21/2009

Columnist Mark Patinkin: Folks aren’t being honest about their Emotional Intelligence
I received a publicity package from Simon & Schuster informing me that America is suffering from more than an economic crisis. We are in an emotional recession as well.

06/20/2009

Mark Patinkin: How come Father’s Day is all about work?
Congratulations, sir.

06/16/2009

Columnist Mark Patinkin: Life got you down? There’s an app for that
She’s 21, a friend of my daughter’s, and she said she was going to Portsmouth.

06/14/2009

Mark Patinkin: This isn’t your father’s golden age of American-made automobiles
He remembers sitting at his window at age 10, watching the cars go by and, of course, back then, the 1930s, every one of them was American. The obsession with cars was such that, like many young boys, my dad could identify most of the makes and models.

06/13/2009

Mark Patinkin: Age gives us more choices
A warm front had moved in just before the reunion began. The campus had a beauty that reminded me of why I was drawn to it when I first visited in 1970. It felt like a refuge, which is what college is meant to be, and it did again now, as I arrived for my 35th.