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MAKING CHANGE, EXACT CHANGE

December 12, 2025 by

With regular money transactions heading toward ‘tap and go’, the people making change, giving exact change, are growing more rare. You’ll find them at the drive through window, picking through coins for just the right combination. “Here’s four quarters instead of a dollar,” they say. Or, “$6.50 for my grande latte half-caff with oat milk? […]

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TIME MACHINE, OR ’66 CORVETTE

October 30, 2025 by

The usual time machine in movies is a box you walk into in one era and walk out of in another. It’s some kind of portal used to go back and fix something. Things go wrong when the fix starts a domino effect that changes everything else, so you have to go back for a […]

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LONELY PEOPLE: FROM HEMINGWAY TO AMERICA

October 27, 2025 by

The answer: lonely people. The question: What does the band America have in common with Ernest Hemingway? Their bond comes from both ends of male adulthood, young man to old man. One sang about them, the other wrote about them. By now baby boomers are both.

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ONE PROGRESSIVE STEP, THE NEXT, AND REPEAT

September 21, 2025 by

One progressive step is all it takes. Give it a try as long as you’re not near a cliff edge with your toes over the side. If that’s where you are, turn around, then take that step. We all hear the same thing when we fall? Get Up. It’s good advice, but then what?

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NEED MORE, WANT MORE? GIVE IT A MINUTE

August 7, 2025 by

Why does William Shakespeare need more? Because, according to him, he’s a fool. He didn’t call himself a wise man, but I figured it out. The greatest writer in the English language knows enough to know he’s a fool? Will wants more, he’s a lifelong learner, and he’s game for it. But, what if you […]

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WARNING SIGNS TO WOMEN LOOKING FOR RED FLAGS

April 24, 2025 by

Warning signs for women come in all shapes and sizes from stop signs to rip tide signs to the groovy ‘What’s your sign’ guy. Some of the signs are lifestyle related, like the above picture. Would you guess this is how women interpret how guys would live without them, or some guy’s dream house. Either […]

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BOOMER VISION: WHAT WE SEE, WHAT THEY THINK WE SEE

February 27, 2025 by

Boomer Vision is a ‘thing,’ or it should be. Butch Cassidy said it with, “I’ve got vision, the rest of the world wears bi-focals.” The only way baby boomers don’t have vision? They keep their eyes wide shut.

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SELF DISCOVERY THROUGH GUITAR SHOPPING

February 24, 2025 by

Self discovery is self explanatory: Self, this is you. You, this is self. That’s the easy part; the hard part is getting along with yourself. It gets harder when you go out looking for a new guitar to replace a perfectly good guitar you may or may not sell. How it starts:

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MUSIC MUSCLES vs OTHER MUSCLES

January 24, 2025 by

Music muscles don’t show until you play that guitar. The only thing that shows until then are the fingertip callouses on your fret hand and maybe a callous on your thumb if you don’t use a pick. Your head doesn’t get lumpy with muscle, but the muscle memory is in there if you practice. But […]

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WHY GUITAR? WHY NOT

January 7, 2025 by

It’s never ‘why guitar’ when you talk about guitars. More like, “Why guitar? Why bother?” Why, why, why. It’s one question with endless answers.

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