Monthly Archives: August 2014

It’s Labor Day – Take a Break

Labor Day weekend 2014 is upon us. It’s a holiday, and none of us wants to think but so seriously about work, even though we do love watching the work of others and passing judgment on it. It’s an American … Continue reading

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BOLO for Goldilocks!

My childhood memories of fairy tales and other such stories are pretty vague, with the exception of two. There was ‘Hansel and Gretel’, a tale whose only contribution to my life was to inflict trauma-induced nightmares, and the story of … Continue reading

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“Harvested Madness”

Sometimes we find ourselves surrounded by a backwash of information regarding events that take over all the headlines and envelope every form of social media. I usually try to avoid those subjects. I don’t normally like writing about what everybody … Continue reading

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So Now … What Do You Think?

When my grandfather could manage to corral a few unencumbered minutes, he liked to sit in his rocking chair and either play his banjo or read the Bible out loud. I loved the sound of either. My favorite place as … Continue reading

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Purr-fectly Persistent

I never thought much about how many senses a cat normally has. I suppose they’d be about like other mammals in that regard, but Dusty wasn’t like other mammals. Dusty could sense, for instance, when humans were enjoying a moment … Continue reading

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