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Confucious Say …
Published on: 2023-07-13
First Chemo Session
Published on: 2023-06-24
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Published on: 2023-06-22
2022 – A Monumental Year
Published on: 2022-12-24
A "Dead Ringer” for a "Wake” – Ring a Bell?
Published on: 2022-12-11
Oh What a Week it’s Been!
Published on: 2022-08-10
State of the World – May, 2022
Published on: 2022-05-15
My Trumpster Solution
Published on: 2022-02-23
Cicado Chorus Exhibition
Published on: 2021-06-30
Runaway Project
Published on: 2021-04-30
Of the People, By the People, and For the Scoundrels
Published on: 2020-12-08
Opportunity for “Left-Brainers”
Published on: 2020-11-20
A Question of Priorities
Published on: 2020-11-16
Illinois 38th Infantry
Published on: 2020-11-11
Behind the Falls
Published on: 2020-11-07
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Confucious Say …
July 14, 2023
Here are 100 sayings to test your knowledge of English. They are the best of those I found. If you know of good ones I didn’t put here that involve puns, email me (and thanks to those who did!) Confucius say, virginity like bubble. One prick – all gone Confucius say, bird in the hand […]
First Chemo Session
June 24, 2023
Friday, 6/23/2023, I received my first chemo session. It was to be a shortened session to see how my body would react to the chemo drug. It started out with a 30 minutes drip of a steroid allowing and extra ten minutes after completion to let my system absorb it. Once they hooked me up […]
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
June 22, 2023
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. […]
2022 – A Monumental Year
December 24, 2022
The year 2022 started out with the promise of the end of the COVID-19 global pandemic. As it comes to a close, I look back at all the events, some predictable, others not, that took place this year. Like my diagnosis with stage-IV prostate cancer in July, and the shocking, though not too surprising tragic […]
A "Dead Ringer” for a "Wake” – Ring a Bell?
December 11, 2022
I caught this interesting post from the Facebook timeline of one of my High School classmates. Since I’ve always been intrigued by these kinds of trivial factoids, wanted to share. After reading this post, I started to research the origins of these expressions, as well as others. Turns out, there are better alternative explanations for […]
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