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Michael Mangano

Former advertising creative director.
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Blog Posts

Family

Ten Extraordinary Minutes

What I learned about my son that night.

Health

Medical Misdemeanors

Every so often I have an “experience” like these few doozies.

Opinion

Exasperating Expressions

Phrases that we (certainly I) can live without.

Holiday Guide 2011

A Christmas Cheer

Here’s to a selfless act that one doesn’t experience very often.

Patch's House & Home

Civilization’s Lack of Civility

He never showed up as promised, and the sad thing is, I wasn’t surprised.

Media

A Tribute to Two Great Men

One I was fortunate enough to work for.

Living

Midnight in America

Wish you could be magically spirited away to another time?

Living

Playing Social "Chicken"

Who’ll be the first one to give in and call?

Books

Catch-Twenty-Who?

The bookstore clerk looked at me like I was speaking Swahili.

The Wrong Way to Fix Medicare

Cutting doctors’ payments = cutting doctors.