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Thank you, Dueling Pianos guys. Don’t know if you’ll read this, but I’m grateful for the song you chose to share when you passed by my vantage point at last Saturday’s Veterans Day parade in Anna.
I had found a spot near Mt. Moriah Lutheran Church which offered a good place for photographing the...
Every once in a while, I figure it might be nice to create a scrapbook featuring some of the images yours truly has stumbled across during the latest chapter in The Journey Through Life.
While out wandering around during the past week right here in Union County, I came across all sorts of things...
With apologies to Bullwinkle Jay Moose, we’re going to begin this week with...
Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a column out of my hat...
Some of you of a certain age may remember famous cartoon celebrities Bullwinkle Jay Moose and his partner, Rocket “Rocky” J. Squirrel. Rocky and Bullwinkle came to...
Once again this week, we’re offering a little bit of this...a little bit of that...a veritable potpourri of the writer’s musings, adventures and other things to waste your valuable time...
Here we go...
Look...up in the sky...it was a bird...nope...it was a plane...nope...Superman? Don’t think so....
Let’s start this week with some football. After all, nothing says football like 90-degree temperatures, with a whole bunch of Southern Illinois humidity thrown in just for the heck of it.
Not all that long ago, back in the Before Times, yours truly looked forward to sitting down on a Saturday...
It was getting late on Monday night. I was getting to the point where I just wanted to turn this week’s column over to some sort of artificial intelligence.
Bob was keeping me company at the time, and I have to say that a cat’s intelligence certainly is not artificial. Just ask one. Besides, he...
PLEASE READ THIS VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE...
No. You are not reading the "back page." The "back page" has to be another page this week. Gotta pay the bills...
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Just never know what a walk, or maybe an unplanned journey along a country road, might bring...
Before we get to the topics at hand, I...
Once again this week, we’ll ponder a little bit of this...and a little bit of that...
We sure could use some rain. Last Sunday afternoon, it looked like we had a good shot at some precipitation, at least based on what the weather radar was showing online. However, not a single drop fell on our...
A writer much more famous, and much more talented, than yours truly, once penned a novel titled “The Winter of Our Discontent.” The author’s name was John Steinbeck. Maybe you’ve heard of him. Or maybe you’ve heard of his dog, Charley...
I do not think that “The Winter of Our Discontent” had...
A few musings by an old guy as we look forward to a heat index of 115 degrees...
Just wondering...are posted speed limits, highway signs (like the ones that command “STOP”) and those stripes on the highways just mere suggestions these days?
Our local “weather guy” reported that the heat index at 12...
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