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Maureen Ogle

Historian. Author. Ranter. Idea Junkie.

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October 30, 2014

The Current Solutions to Life's Woes

October 30, 2014/ Maureen Ogle

That specific afternoon breeze will be there exactly one time, and never again. 

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Random musings
October 23, 2014

The Digital Is Us -- And We Are the Digital

October 23, 2014/ Maureen Ogle

By god, now I KNOW I’m living in the digital age. It occurred to me today that an oddball encounter that I had with a customer service agent two weeks ago was oddball because . . . the agent was an algorithm, not a human being.

 

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October 10, 2014

Where Craft Beer Ends, Big Beer Begins?

October 10, 2014/ Maureen Ogle

So here’s one of the BA’s primary messages — beer is good for the economy — being dished up by the “other” beer trade group. The BI is coopting the craft beer gospel, right? 

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October 09, 2014

The Future Is Ours To Make

October 09, 2014/ Maureen Ogle

Because in my heart, to borrow Anne Frank’s phrase, I believe that if we understand that the past is different from the present, then we also understand that the future is ours to shape.

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Cool stuff, A Historian's View
October 05, 2014

In The Kitchen: Imagined Tomato Tart

October 05, 2014/ Maureen Ogle

I didn’t pre-bake the crust. (I’ve never tried it.) So, yeah, the final result had a soggy-ish bottom layer. (And its buttery mushiness was divine with the tomatoes and cheese.)

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October 01, 2014

In the Kitchen: I Don't Know What I'm Doing Soup

October 01, 2014/ Maureen Ogle

But the greens were so many and The Husband hates greens so much that . . . I couldn't do it to him. So, I thought: Soup. I'll use those greens in soup. 

 

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Website of Maureen Ogle, author and historian. Books include Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer; In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore America; and Key West: History of An Island of Dreams.

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