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RED
I started working at a soup kitchen in Greer SC way back in 1990. I have seen many people walk through the doors both as volunteers and those we call “clients”. I have many stories I could tell. Many things I have seen. I grew up in a blue collar family. I never really thought…
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And Just Like That……Poof We’re Gone
My aunt died this past Thursday. She died peacefully after battling leukemia as well as dementia. She was a wonderful woman. She was the organist at Belair United Methodist Church for over 50 years where I grew up in Indian Land, SC. She loved Roosters. Paintings, of roosters, ceramic roosters, coffee table rooster books. She…
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mañana
My Facebook feed is loaded with Jimmy Buffett tributes from my friends to singers, athletes, and politicians. Buffett meant a lot to many people in the USA including myself. I saw Buffett the first time at what I think was either The New Dixie Saloon or Double Door Inn in 1975? It was before he…
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I’d Rather Eat A Hushpuppy Than Wear One
So much for a gasbag to bloviate about. Trump vs Biden again? Please nooooooo. Will Putin obliterate us all? Elon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg…….who ya got. They have agreed to fight at the “Vegas Octagon,” an Ultimate Fighting Championship arena, although it’s unclear if and when it will take place. Pumpkin Spice?????? Been there, done…
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In worlds with pencils, schools page drink slime
Yes boys and girls we are starting that time, the time where Word Salads run amok. The most wonderful time of the next two years. Politics in the great ole USA. Seems like yesterday we were getting over 2020. Seriously I think it was yesterday or as our Vice President would say it’s just a…
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CH CH CH……CHANGES
Well I am looking at a month into my retirement. I must admit the first two weeks were kind of hard. Still getting emails and texts during the transition I found myself calling the people who worked for me and asking if everything was ok. I found myself asking work things. Do I need to…
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Turn The Page
“Retirement is not the end of the road. It is the beginning of the open highway.” Thursday I will start that new chapter of my life. Robert Earl Keen sang that the road goes on forever. We all know that isn’t true but my hope is that I can cover many miles on this road…
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Turn The Page
Time rushes toward me — it has no brakes. Still, the radishes are good this year. Run them through butter, add a little salt…. Jim Harrison “Retirement is not the end of the road. It is the beginning of the open highway.” Thursday I will start that new chapter of my life. Robert Earl Keen…
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Aimless Chatting of Limited Men
So tonight when my wife Rebecca said that she would not sit through another basketball game and I refused to look at “House Hunting”or “Please Sell My Dump“ or whatever else the ridiculous shows that comes on Home and Garden, I relented. We decided to watch a movie. Today being St Patty’s Day why not…