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Ralph Gardner Jr.Simple Pleasures: A rolling tribute to the little things in life
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The Book of Chores #3
The pool robot doing its thing after a bad storm
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July 18th, 2026
The combination of thunderstorm...
Second string Hudson River School painters weren't half bad
The Range. By John Bunyan Bristol, c.1860 The Hudson Valley and the Catskill Mountains
An art history question that’s been bugging me for years — admittedly a selfish, self-centered one — is why the Hudson River School painters were...
The Book of Chores
June contemplating the unmowed lawn
July 15th, 2026
The smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to blanket the Northeast. There is lots of lawn left to be mowed — yesterday I tamed approximately one-third of it — but a question to which t...
The Book of Chores
My intention is to post regularly about my daily chores. Chores have a bad reputation. They’re dismissed as boring and repetitive. I’m not prepared to argue if people feel that way. I can’t say I completely disagree. There’s a distinct poss...
Is buying an electric bike throwing in the towel?
The Orbea Vibe pedal assist electric bike
I’m not proud of my decision to buy an electric bike. I might even feel humbled. Real men don’t need help getting up hills. But I’m simply bowing to the inevitable. Lately the elapsed time on...
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Ralph Gardner Jr. is a journalist and public radio commentator. From 2010 to 2016 he wrote the Wall Street Journal’s Urban Gardner column.
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