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Do you believe in guardian angels?
We’ll get back to that question in just a bit. But first, a few words about one of the photographs which accompanies this week’s column.
During the afternoon of the 11th day of the first month of the now not so new year of 2023, yours truly went for a ride out to...
Last Sunday afternoon was all about habits...or maybe routines...some still kept...some, well, not so much...and a little bit of BIG FOOT, too...
Hang on to your seats...this will be almost as exciting as that Detroit/Green Bay NFL game Sunday night. Almost.
Sunday afternoon, instead of taking a...
So...is a tradition still a tradition if the tradition happens a week late?
On the final day of 2022, yours truly took a walk in a creek bed...and cooked something on the grill. Under “normal” circumstances, such activities would have been part of your writer’s day on Christmas Eve.
As you may...
The inspiration for this week showed up on the dining room table Monday evening, which, truth be told, was a little bit late. Oh, well.
While making my way through a stack of have-not-been-read-yet copies of USA TODAY, a headline in the December 2-4 edition of “The Nation’s News” caught my...
Thank goodness for whipped cream...the condiment that can even make Monday a little bit better...
...well, I think it was Monday...
November 21 was the Monday before November 24. November 24 was Thanksgiving Day, which happened to fall, once again, on a Thursday. And that’s the catalyst for this...
I’m pretty sure Mr. Jack O’Lantern was cackling in the cold last Saturday morning...
...you may (or may not) recall that in last week’s column, The Other Half had alerted yours truly to the possibility of some icy precipitation, as in snow, which was appearing in a long-range forecast she had seen...
The brain waves seemed to have pretty much stopped functioning smoothly Monday night when this little gem was crafted.
The good thing is that I at least have a head start on next year’s Halloween costume, should such a thing actually be needed.
Speaking of Halloween, The Other Half and yours truly...
Before we get to the “good stuff,” I just wanted to share a little something about my peekaboo encounter Monday evening with a rather friendly, and playful, squirrel...
Monday evening, after getting home from another day at The Paragraph Factory, I went for my daily walkabout. As I walked past the...
Last Saturday afternoon was a nice time to go for a walk on the beach...
...so that’s what we did.
Not all that long ago, we would have considered such an adventure to be one of our Pandemic Dates. Now, the pandemic may be over for a lot of folks. We’re not quite sure about that, for very personal...
It was a dark and stormy night...
...except that it wasn’t. Which made last Sunday night’s power outage in our hometown a bit baffling.
The power went out shortly after 9 p.m. Sunday. The Other Half and yours truly were doing our best imitations of being awake. She had gone outside to take care of...
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