Just an April story from 2021. We had a late April snow a few weeks ago. It started out as a howling wind, then icy rain, then snow. We watched the temperature drop rapidly from 54 degrees, finally settling at 27 degrees. The following morning it snowed again. Along with the new flurries were big
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Good-Bye Earle
I did something I was afraid to do and I guess I’m proud of myself. I have mixed emotions about this event. I’m part of a chicken co-op and during COVID our old hens decided not to lay any more. We hung on to the girls mostly because the co-op excels at procrastination. Eventually we
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Internet Rant. Join the Fun.
It’s a rant today on everyone’s favorite ranting subject: the internet. Join in if you feel called. Our internet coverage out here in the valley is tin cans strung together. No fiber, no satellite availability, we don’t even have reliable antenna reception when the leaves are on the trees. Yet somehow we have indescribably slow DSL.
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The School of Hard Knocks
I don’t give up easily. Stubborn, hardheaded and tenacious, that’s me. It also takes me a while to get the message when I make bad choices and I’ve made a lot. If this sounds like you, read on. Actually, read on anyway. I graduated high school in Indiana with honors a semester early. Four
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Revenge Isn’t Really Very Sweet
I’ve been thinking about revenge. In the southern branch of our family revenge was best served ice cold, saccharine sweet, locked and loaded. Tradition dictated that if you wronged us, you wronged the entire family and you would pay. If not today, tomorrow. If not this decade than the next or forever until your family
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Learning to Chill
Geez, I’m tired. What about you? Have you ever had a week where everything seems overwhelming? That’s my week. Every time I turn around, I’m rushing off to the next thing. I did this complete overwhelm to myself just as you do it to yourself too. I scheduled lots of events and fun things that
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Cyber Circus
Do you have a social media presence? Maybe you don’t want one. Sometimes I think that’s a good idea. As a coach and an artist, I post on Facebook and Instagram. For coaching, I offer words of wisdom on Wednesdays and Bad Joke Friday on well, Friday. (Here I’m inserting a shameless request for you
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Sweet Potato Madness
Have you ever had one of those times where you try hard to do things correctly but you’re so stubborn you do it your way regardless? Thug Kitchen (Rodale, 2014) is an irreverent, f-bomb dropping cookbook. It’s not for everyone. And my tale is not about a recipe from their book. I’m sure they’d thank
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Every Gig is DIfferent
I love going out to catch some tunes don’t you? And as a musician, I think live music is the best. There’s magic in being in the same room with the musicians. On a tough night not all the players start in the same key. Or start the same song. If the drummer is sitting
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Actually, He Didn’t Thrill Me
I’m thinking of a long ago Spring. It was the Spring I turned 40 and my two friends and I headed to the Juke Joint Blues Festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi. It was a grey and rainy day to travel and my friends started the day doing some friendly carping at each other on to get
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