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Category Archives: All Things Considered
Can’t Hurt to Ask
We just returned from a few days upstate at the little getaway condo I told you about in The Nature of the Beast. Before I go on, thank you to my friend and neighbor, who happens to look like Dr. Cuddy … Continue reading
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Tagged MAD Magazine, Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions, sophomoric humor
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It’s the Geography, Stupid
Daughter came over yesterday to be my left hand because that’s the one that’s injured since Indiana Wants Me. I had to miss the last week of school and not take my proficiency finals because I only had one hand that … Continue reading
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Tagged cow tipping, Flickr, Indiana, wedding photos
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Hickory Dickory Dead
One evening last week as I was setting the table, I noticed a couple of caraway seeds had fallen from the counter top into the silverware drawer next to the spoons. I discarded them and moved the bread further away. … Continue reading
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Tagged glue traps, house rodents, humane mouse trap, mouse traps
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Still Funny After All These Years
It’s the middle of January and I’m late passing these on but now that you’re settled in, here are George Carlin’s New Rules for 2008. They were sent to me by correspondent Blondie and I’ve since seen them attributed to other … Continue reading
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Fourth and Goal
This weekend was classic football weather with that crystal bite in the air and magenta leaves in transit and the distant thump of a high school marching band. We live within earshot of a high school, the one Daughter attended, … Continue reading
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Tagged cemetery visit, elder care, family burial plot, football season, nursing home visit
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But Then I’d Have to Kill You
There’s a teacher at my school who I sometimes chat with between classes while she has a smoke in the parking lot. I normally avoid people while they’re smoking because I’m a long-ago reformed smoker whose father recently died of … Continue reading
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Tagged dangers of smoking, going to Confession, stop smoking
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Those old time Billboard blues
When I was a teenager and had occasion to leave my room and join the rest of the household, my parents would sometimes have the radio on or a record playing. Invariably, what would hit my ears would be Tony … Continue reading
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Tagged 60s music, Bob Dylan, cover bands, Elvis, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Michael Buble, The Beatles
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Baby Steps
On October 11, 2006 the first article appeared in this spot making today my blog’s first birthday. What began as a suggestion by Husband that was encouraged by Daughter became a resurrection of a newspaper column I used to write … Continue reading
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Tagged anonymous blogger, blog topics, favorite blog entries
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