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When Dumb Becomes Useful

There is a longstanding phrase that sums up the impulsivity of youth: Young and stupid….

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Bombs Bursting In Air

The noise and clouds of rising smoke have left this year’s 4th of July celebration…

2 Comments Childhood Tales, Parental Moments, Self-Assessment, Teenage Years 4th of July, blowing up teapots, blowing up trash cans, Cherry Bombs, destroying balsa wood gliders, fireworks, freakish accounts, freaks of nurture, freaks of nurture.com, getting fireworks from Ohio, M-80's, yelled at by the next door neighbor

Fear Factor

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Remember that golden moldy from…

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Who Gets You, Baby?

I ask you this in all sincerity because it’s important that somebody get you; understand…

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A Tale of Two Mother’s Day Breakfasts

As anyone who knows me knows (is it you, dear reader?) I am nothing if…

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Navigating the “Big Muddy”

I seriously doubt that many young men would have resisted a just and necessary cause…

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Oh-oh Here She Comes…

Your probably going to read this and think that I’m some kind of vanity whore…

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Visiting Ancestrial America

In the summer of 1973, preceding my senior year in college, I arranged a special…

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Mea Culpa Poodle

It’s probably unnecessary to publish a formal correction to an earlier essay since that’s really…

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Lunch at Linebaugh’s

The late, great, John Hartford (bluegrass/songwriter) was an early musical inspiration of mine and in…

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