At the preserve pond, my occasional swim was observed by a slick, slime-covered rat-tailed muskrat.

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In college, as a philosophy major enamoured by the Transcendentalists, I made my first pilgrimage to Walden Pond, in Concord, Mass.

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Consider this column my little pebble in the pond.

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Anne Marie and I took our honeymoon in Quebec City, and since it was December and cold, we skated, which reminded me of my parents' applauding my skating on the golf course pond, so many years ago, and of how nice that was.

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No matter that our house would have wireless Internet access: I decided to try to only use it for fun: the phone number for the kayaking rentals at Gull Pond, the hours for my favorite seafood shack and other good stuff.

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"I told my insurance company that it fell in a pond, " he said.

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Dear David , my apologies , your opinion sounded like that of someone pitching from over the pond , not someone who has been living here the last ten years.

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From my rocking chair, the back lawn extended far down a steep grade ending at a trout pond and smelled new-mown.

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