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BETTER MAN FOR WHO, FOR WHAT?

If someone asks you to be a better man, not their Best Man, what do you say? What do you do? You could agree to make a better effort. Or you could let it go. Either way, you’ve got a problem. Then what?

TIME OUT FOR YOU, YOU, AND YOU

The first ‘time out’ I ever heard came during a grade school basketball game. Coach: Do you know who you’re supposed to be guarding? Me: No. Coach: Guard the other team, not ours. Me: Oh. Okay.

MAD ABOUT YOU? WHY YOU?

If you think the world is mad about you, you’re probably right. But what is it about you that gets people worked up? Is it your car? Your hair? Your shoes? Your beard? No, nope, huh uh. It’s your sense of humor.

MUSICAL ENDURANCE CLASS FOR THE NON-MUSICAL

Musical endurance means hitting the same note over and over the rest of your life. Sounds easy, right? Because it is. If you were one of the gifted, the lucky, the special, you started early and have been doing it your whole life. However, if that’s not you, play the blues in E. That’s your […]

NEW NAKED GYM GUY BOUNDARIES UPDATE, 2023

  You have boundaries; naked gym guy needs boundaries.  Who sets the boundaries? Two normal people join a gym: one of them works out and goes home, the other works out and showers at the gym. Then it breaks down further. Two people shower at the gym: sweaty guys and those who like to shower […]

WORKING TOGETHER IN THE BEAVER STATE

A call for working together won’t make you a homer, a weakling, or manager. For now, let’s say it’s a call to ‘police up’ your area, clean up your mess. Do you know about policing up your area? It’s not about giving yourself a police badge.

CALM SURRENDER LIFESTYLE, AND DOG TRAINING

The first I’d heard of ‘calm surrender’ came from a chemo clinic nurse. I asked her what someone like me was supposed to do during cancer treatment. She said surrender calmly. I told her Gillaspie isn’t a French name. Nurse Michel was not amused, but she was right.

DIALECT STORIES TOLD IN TONGUES

Based on a particular vocabulary, all stories are dialect stories. From Mark Twain to Forrest Gump, and every stop in between. But what happens when language jumps off the page with directions, or recipes, or, wait for it: Feelings?

LOVE LIFE HISTORY OF THE BABY BOOMER

For a successful love life you need to make the decision all English majors make: Do you throw yourself into the fire, or coast along for the ride? Do the required reading? Or go to Cliff Notes? Checking in on an old Baby Boomer favorite from Facebook.

GRANDPARENT CHRISTMAS BLESSING

A grandparent Christmas is different than another Christmas? It is for the willing, as in willing to keep things on schedule. Not so much for those who set a time and place and use it for judging others. Like everything else that goes one, things come up to delay the time. But it doesn’t effect […]