When The Maltese Falcon was released in Hollywood in 1941 starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor along with a thrilling cast of characters, no one could have known that one of the lines spoken by Bogart’s character, Sam Spade, would become a catch phrase. Movie-goers also wouldn’t have guessed that in the last segment of…
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As a diehard fan of the legendary Dr. Who television series since the 1960’s and seeing every single episode ever made since then, it’s hard for me not to relate my TV/Movie world with my everyday reality, which is how the Quick-Seat Time Travel Chronicles got started a few years back, chronicling time travel adventures…
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Everyone loves and needs a bit of adventure. It’s only natural. If you’re like me, you don’t enjoy walking as a pastime or exercise program, just ambling along with no particular function. But, what I do like, what I discovered during the lock-down of 2020, was that I absolutely adore going out in search of…
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When I was a kid growing up in the 1950’s and 60’s, there was a popular television series, The Millionaire. Mysteriously, each week a well-dressed polite stranger would arrive at a new home or apartment, ring the front door bell and introduced himself. He was Mr. Anthony, played by Marvin Miller. Briefly, he would explain…
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Sometimes the best thing we can do is simply get up and move away from our desk, or change our scenery, create a stop-gap in our brain from what a feels like a problem solving explosion. We need a 180° change from where we are at the moment. I learned all about this and developed…
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When Rex Stout began writing the Nero Wolfe detective stories for a series of very engaging novels back in 1934, he created a character so captivating and so large in life, it was hard for people to stop reading them. Popularity grew, along with fictional character Wolfe’s waistline, and his abomination for much physical activity;…
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The Quick-Seat Chair company was founded on the idea that “folks just need to sit awhile,” and most of the time they can, if they’re at home or visiting friends or at their office. But there are all those other times when there simply isn’t a place to sit. For most people standing for an…
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So many of us are drawn to treasure maps because they are the stuff that adventures are made of. Our childhood adventures stay with us for a lifetime reminiscing about them as years to on, and somehow never fade from our memories. No matter how small or in what form, from the connect the dots…
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Quick-Seat Chairs & The Walking Book Club. Now, why didn’t I think of this back then when I was ‘wellness coordinating’ in the field. Goodness knows I’d thought of everything else including the walking Art Detectives Club. So then, how could I resist delving more into this topic. At Quick-Seat Chair we are concerned with,…
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They’ve been here in my home since the early 1980’s when I bought them from a friend. She had bought them years before from a reputable antique dealer and then had them in storage and never used them. And, there they sat until she was having a clean out and I happened by for a…
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