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Let Inga Tell You: To me, crickets win over spiders, wings down

While my husband, Olof, and I have many common interests, we will be the first to admit we suffer from insect incompatibility.
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Let Inga Tell You: Hoping for a bimbo-free hereafter

Recently I’ve been writing about some heavy-duty topics. Trolls on neighborhood social media. Polio.
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Let Inga Tell You: When water bills attack

It’s never good news when your refrigerator suddenly starts sounding like a fountain.
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Let Inga Tell You: Social media trolls among us

It was the best of ideas. It was the worst of ideas.
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Let Inga Tell You: Thanks but no thanks for the no thanks

Welcome to Auntie Inga’s Curmudgeon Hour, Thank You Note edition. OK, so I’m getting old.
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Let Inga Tell You: Polio is back. That means getting vaccinated

I was more than a little dismayed to read recently that the polio virus, which had been practically eradicated in the United States, has been detected in wastewater in the New York City area since May.

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Let Inga Tell You: A message to leave at the beep: Stop beeping!

I’m trying to decide when our lives became controlled by beeps.
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Let Inga Tell You: Here’s something to crow about

Over the four decades I’ve lived in my house, we’ve noticed sudden influxes and exoduses of bird populations.
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Let Inga Tell You: They really don’t regret any inconvenience

“We regret any inconvenience this may have caused you” seems to have become the national motto.
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Let Inga Tell You: We all have a diagnosis

Reading a story in the paper the other day about various psychiatric diagnoses being lobbed at current and former people in power, I couldn’t help but concede that the DSM-5, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, hasn’t spared any of us.
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Let Inga Tell You: These are some great sayings — and you can quote me

Over the years, I’ve been collecting favorite quotes — way too many to list here.
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Let Inga Tell You: Innovations in the kitchen, with mallet aforethought

Over the years, I have found that some of my best kitchen tools would be under the heading of “off label,” i.e., not originally designed for kitchen use.
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Let Inga Tell You: Parents, please don’t hoard it over your kids

Have I ever mentioned that on my mother’s side of the family, I am the only one in my generation, including my siblings, who is not a hoarder?
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Let Inga Tell You: I’m still living, but my time isn’t

My worst fear isn’t dying. It’s having to get new electronics.
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Let Inga Tell You: Please stop selling — I’m not buying

Sometimes it feels like there is hardly a moment in my day that I am not being marketed to.
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Let Inga Tell You: We just wanted to pay our taxes

Olof and I don’t have a complicated financial life, so he is fully capable of doing our taxes on TurboTax every year.