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So how old am I?
Steam locomotives, segregated schools, circuses under a big tent, organ grinders, burlesque theaters, horse drawn milk wagons - all of these things existed on the day I was born, and I’ve seen all of them.
I grew up placing phone calls by telling the operator the number I wanted to reach. There […]
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Well I’ll be damned – I made it. The big SIX-OH is now behind me, and I can get on with the rest of my life. It’ll be another forty years until the next killer b’day.
So I’m sixty now – you got a problem with that?
When I was a kid, there was this old man […]
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Tomorrow (Friday) is my sixtieth birthday – a day I never thought I’d see. Not because I thought I’d die young, but because I just never thought I would get old.
Of course, by today’s standards, it’s not that ancient. The place is crawling with tons of people my age in mighty fine shape – a […]
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I am a notorious recluse – in part because of my former celebrity, in part because of my nature, and now because I am no longer able to leave the house alone.
This morning saw yet another trip to a blood lab, as I now must have my red blood cell count continuously monitored. One of […]
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Well, I’ve apparently lost the guy from China. Screw him – I’ve got readers in both North AND South Dakota, that’s almost as good.
I make no apology for my feelings towards the Bucs, and as for the Little League story – he just missed the point of it. Probably a language barrier thing.
I mean, I […]
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Oh crap, this is just awful. Last night I’m going through the log, and someone from China was on there. Some guy(?) from China was reading this “blog”.
I don’t know how he found it, or what he expected to find – but here’s some guy from another culture, clear on the other side of […]
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To blog, or not to blog? That is the question.
The world is full of strife, and despair. War rages, natural disaster wreak havoc, but it’s Sunday in Tampa Bay, and my attention is focused on nothing other than a stupid football game.
Being an irrational human being, obsessed with my hatred of the local team, their […]
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The swifter among you have caught on to the fact that this “blog” does not permit reader comments – nor is there a contact page. Neither is an oversight.
It’s not that I don’t care about what you think – I do. It’s not that your visits here are not important to me – they are. […]
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Do you believe in miracles? Why? In all of recorded history, there has never – I said never – been a miracle. And I can prove it.
By definition, a miracle is something that cannot happen – and there ain’t never been anything that can’t happen, happen. I rest my case.
Perhaps there are those who might […]
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I’ve told this story before, but it plays such a significant part in my life, that it’s worth repeating…Unlike many people, I can identify turning points in my life to the exact moment in time that they occurred. The first such “turning point” came on a chilly Spring morning in 1958 - the second Saturday […]
