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UNIFORM POWER CHANGES PEOPLE

Buffalo Men In Blue Serving And Protecting If you’ve never seen uniform power up close, keep reading. This post might shed light on how people change when they put on a uniform with a bunch of other people. Or you might want to skip the read, after all, it’s just another old white male boomer, […]

APOLOGIZE NOW THAT YOU’VE HAD TIME TO THINK

Apologize now? For what? Who hasn’t had some regret during the coronavirus quarantine? Maybe a little remorse? If that’s you, then it’s time to apologize now. Start early and bring it up to speed.

CHOICES MADE, ROADS TAKEN

We live with choices made, some we make, some made for us. Who among us wants a voice? Who here asks a question and accepts the answer offered? Most important, what is the question that needs an answer today, right now? I’ll go first, since I’m the blogger authority here, and start with wrong questions.

SADNESS AND THE ONLY CHILD ALONE ON THEIR DAY

The Smothers Brothers comedy team had a routine that fit every family, except only child families, when one said to the other, “Mom always liked you best.” Every brother or sister who hasn’t said that missed a golden opportunity for a guilt ridden jab, deserved or not. In some homes it has to go unsaid […]

EXPERIENCE + KNOWLEDGE = TRUST, (if trust matters)

Who hopes the person collecting checks has enough experience to know what to do? I trust the automatic teller at my bank. I put a check in a pneumatic tube, push send, and a face comes on the screen, a face I automatically trust. If the bank trusts them, I trust them, even though we’re […]

ARMY MEDIC: JOB TWO OF FIVE

Army medic was the job I signed up for when I joined after freshman year in 1974. Army medic was my dad’s idea. The old Marine also advised against joining the Navy, but that’s expected. I went in on the Buddy Plan with a high school buddy. We lasted three days together in receiving, then […]

ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST MOVIE PALS

The past January I’ve been on an Academy Award sprint to see the movies nominated. Or at least a few of them. I started with 1917. My group had it all figured out. We would meet at the theater and go from there. It was a perfect plan except for one thing:

WRESTLING WITH THE DEVIL, A SUN DEVIL, AND WINNING

Great wrestling stories are journeys, internally and externally. From The Odyssey, to Tom Sawyer, to Saving Private Ryan, a journey works to transport readers into the lives and times of those written about. Tonya Russo Hamilton joins the ranks of those who capture time and place and deliver a story flowing with streams of emotion.

GOING FULL BOOMER: WHAT IT IS

Full boomer is not a goal to achieve, it is a scene to avoid. How do I know this? Evidence, I have evidence, and it’s not something I read, or saw on TV.

HOPEFUL PEOPLE ARE HELPFUL PEOPLE

I can’t agree with the conflict between millennials and baby boomers. That’s not what hopeful people do. You won’t agree either by the end of this post. I’ll start at the boomer beginning and go forward from there. You’re going to read some uncomfortable truths, but they’ll make sense and smooth out by the end.