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GRACEFUL LIFE WITH ELEGANCE AND POISE

August 23, 2024 by

A graceful life begins with good health and proper hydration. The good health part is keeping mechanically sound enough to do hard things now and then. For proper hydration for doing those hard things, drink water in between this dandy beer. ($12.00 in the store, $3 for a six pack at Rogue’s Garage Sale. I’ll […]

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PERSONAL ATTACHMENTS KEEP GROWING

July 31, 2024 by

I’ll define ‘personal attachments’ first: it’s your leg, your arm, your head. It’s anything you’ve grown fond of. Baby boomers are officially old enough to have grown fond of most everything. And that’s a normal life.

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FIRST FATHER’S DAY?

June 16, 2024 by

If this is your first Father’s Day keep a few things in mind. It’s not a birthday, Christmas, or any day you’ve had before. Dad’s across the nation have had the very same day, but they all took did it differently. No dad is the same, after all.

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BLAME ENGLAND FOR THAT?

May 22, 2024 by

Blame England? For what? For being so green, so lush, so historical with its leftover Roman roots? For having current people renting and living in four or five hundred year old houses? Go ahead and blame England for anything you want and you’ll be able to find evidence backing it up. Just make it good. […]

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STABLE MAN? WHAT HE IS, OR WHERE HE LIVES?

June 30, 2022 by

A stable man is good to know, whether it’s in the neighborhood or the horse barn. If you see a man mucking out a stall, that’s a stable man. The same also name applies to the guy who keeps his yard up, his car clean, and decorates his porch with flowers instead of old refrigerators. […]

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CARE LIMITS: WHEN IS IT TOO MUCH?

May 4, 2022 by

Family caregivers have few care limits, for better or worse. The better part is that they stay on the job. The worst part: they quit. Not everyone gets it at first, but it sinks in eventually: Now what?

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WHY LEGITIMATE POLITICAL DISCOURSE NEEDS SOME SCHOOLING

February 5, 2022 by

Since I’m an expert on political discourse I’ll tell you how I became such an expert After reading this, see if the same criteria applies to others who claim expertise in legitimate political discourse. For me, it all started in second grade. Experts, believable experts, need early references.

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HAPPY PLACES, BECAUSE WE NEED MORE THAN ONE

September 18, 2020 by

Happy places hard to find? It’s the virus pandemic, the lockdown, broiling temperatures, and forest fires. It’s the political right, political left, the politically disconnected. It’s President Trump, former VP Joe Biden, and the specter of a stealth third party candidate swaying the vote. Anyone but you, right? You’d be in your happy places if […]

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DREAMS DIE? NO, THEY GET CROWDED OUT BY NEW DREAMS

July 7, 2020 by

Dreams die, or seem to die, because that’s what dreams do. Does anyone remember the dream they had last night better than the dreams they had as kids? When a dream is memorable as an adult, which way do they go: nightmare, or comfort? I lean toward the anxious side.

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DEMOCRAT PARTY OFFICIAL WEBSITE PHONE CALL

February 16, 2018 by

  I got the call last night from the Democrat Party, and like a story that goes public after signing non-disclosure statements, I felt a sense of freedom.   The phone call on my land line, yes I still have a land line, was a money call. One hundred dollars was the starting point.   […]

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