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Sixty Is A Serious Number
…where we find the author contemplating aging… _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Middle Age Doesn’t Last Forever When I was a kid old people were beat-up old.
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2016 Did No Favors To 2017
I was one of those, speaking of 2016 with woe and lamentations. Celebrity deaths, police shooting and being shot, terrorism, mass shootings, and, as it has been for every single year of my life,
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The Beatitudes Of Christmas
Blessed are they who get underwear for Christmas. Our family trees have been around since around was around, but only since WWII have we had the affluence to get so many, for so cheap.
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The War of 2016
What a fatigue of a year. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ It Began With A Clean Slate In January of 2016 I wrote a Bedtime Story
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God Grant Me
…the ability to look at a jumble of things that matter and know which matters the most. …the common sense to appreciate the common. …the do-it to do good when no one is looking…and
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Give Me Something I Can Vote For In November
Put Sunday naps on the ballot. I vote for smiles. Something about this year, I don’t see ‘em like I used to see ‘em. I’ll even vote twice if it means we get sincere
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All Those Stars
There I was, a long way from home, Louisiana boy trying to do some antique business with a dealer from Kansas. A plastic milk crate filled with many objects and I say, “How much
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The Ceremony Of Coffee
Her husband brought her coffee every morning. Not just when they were newlyweds, not just when things were hunky-dory, every morning, mornings after spats, mornings after she wished she could take back things she’d
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Minds Were Made To Wonder
I wonder if Hitler had a guardian angel. Do pessimists have negative blood? Ever wonder what was the best thing before sliced bread? And who put the “s” in lisp? I wonder who invented
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It’s Been One Heck Of A Year
First responders in our state have had one heck of a year. Between state troopers being murdered and floods uf Biblical nature, dem dat are first to get to a site uf tragedy have
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