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Tuesday, May 12th, 2015

When I reached seventy I thought the world couldn’t get any crazier. Now that I’m past eighty I see I was bad wrong.

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Monday, May 11th, 2015

Garey and I painted our barn last week.  It is an old barn, made from oak, and it has some sort of pressed wood siding, so we painted mostly siding then oak boards in the places where the siding was missing. 

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Sunday, May 10th, 2015

In the early days of the telephone, there was a man hired to sell phones in California. Though California was sparsely inhabited at this time, he sold more phones than those who were sent to the big cities.

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Thursday, May 7th, 2015

Sunday night is the series finale of Revenge after four years.  That got me thinking about the most satisfying/disappointing series finales of all time.  All-time favorites range from Roseanne(even though it had the bizarre ending of Roseanne being a writer and killing the Dan character) to Lost(

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Wednesday, May 6th, 2015

I watch and read the news because I like to know a little about world events. Some things I filter out – I don’t want to know any more. But, some recent news items caught my attention. A few of those are below.

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Monday, May 4th, 2015

I have insomnia—often—and usually after a day of strenuous physical labor.  We painted our barn this week, and my carpal tunnel kept me awake, long into the a.m.

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Sunday, May 3rd, 2015

At times, we see the question asked, “What would Jesus do?” In this article, however, I wish to ask whether or not Jesus would do what we are doing. Would He be practicing what we are practicing? May we take these thoughts to heart …

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Wednesday, April 29th, 2015

This Saturday is the 141st (first occurring in 1875) running of the Greatest Two Minutes in Sports.  The Kentucky Derby is held the first Saturday in May, we all know.  The race caps the two-week long Kentucky Derby Festival.  Close to 10,000 people watched that first annual Kentucky Derby as 15

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Wednesday, April 29th, 2015

Some of my friends are making a conscious effort to be more helpful to those who have encountered hard times. Winston Churchill said, "We make a living by what we get.

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Tuesday, April 28th, 2015

When I reached seventy I thought the world couldn’t get any crazier. Now that I’m past eighty I see I was bad wrong.

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