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Thomas Edison would swoon at the power and effect of cellphones
Posted Tuesday, March 10, 2020, at 11:10 AMI hold in my hand perhaps the most significant personal technological communication advance in the past 25 years – the cellphone. I never talked on the phone when I was a kid on the farm in rural Greene County, Indiana. My mother did; mostly to neighbors on the party line. ... -
One liners; zingers
Posted Tuesday, March 3, 2020, at 8:19 AMA man walked into a bar and said, “Ouch, that hurts.” Why a bar, why not a barber shop? Grocery store? Farm equipment dealership? Taxidermy shop? What did one Thai say to the other? “I don’t know, I don’t speak Thai.”... -
Harry and Meghan are not the only ones with titles
Posted Tuesday, February 11, 2020, at 9:32 AMIn my former life during the BRE [Before Retirement Era], I worked in personnel by writing policy, hiring and firing and supervising literally hundreds of employees. Each required a job description and title to determine what each employee was supposed to be doing and so supervisors could determine if they were doing what they were supposed to do. Today, in our house we do things in a similar manner... -
Some reflections on Christmas
Posted Friday, January 17, 2020, at 1:47 PMAnd I don’t mean lights in the window According to a new report, the cost of all the gifts listed in ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ song is up $233 from last year. That Lord’s a Leaping Union is killing us... -
Making sense of Christmas
Posted Friday, December 13, 2019, at 9:10 AMPicture two reindeer dashing through the snow pulling a sleigh; one is named Spiritual and the other Secular. Christmas has been divided into two segments over the years; The Spiritual half with the focus on Jesus’ birth and the secular half with the focus on Santa Claus. Today I discuss the secular side... -
Attention on deck; listen up
Posted Thursday, December 5, 2019, at 2:05 PMI was in a group of sailors not paying attention. Suddenly a booming voice yelled, “Attention on deck, listen up. The CPO let us know who was in charge. I have been collecting some pithy anecdotes and today I share them with you. Attention on deck; listen up... -
Prosperity vs. entitlement
Posted Monday, November 18, 2019, at 9:28 AMReaders of my column know I rarely broach controversial topics and current events in my writing. At least not as a confutation – look it up in your Funk and Wagnall’s Dictionary. However, a couple I count as dear friends, I do have friends, Linn and Gary Chitwood, yes he is related to the Joey Chitwood who for years had a show called The Hell Drivers who entertained people at fairs and other places driving stunt cars. They sent me the following thoughts... -
This will get you flagged by the TSA
Posted Thursday, October 17, 2019, at 9:08 PMI would rather pass a kidney stone than fly. The truth is I have never passed a kidney stone unless one was along the road as I roared by in my 2004 Buick. And I may have exaggerated this a bit. Well some. BW, my proofer and editor, said, “It’s more than some!”... -
You can only scratch the surface
Posted Monday, September 30, 2019, at 11:03 AMI just scratched an itch and it felt good. What is that condition we call an itch? What is happening on my body when suddenly a spot begins to itch? What is the anatomical condition or situation that demands my attention? It feels as if someone is touching my skin with a very sharp pencil lead. ... -
How hot is it?
Posted Monday, August 5, 2019, at 2:58 PM1It is hot. How hot is it? June and the first two weeks in July were like the rain forest. What a change. Now it is so hot and dry the camels in the Louisville Zoo have purchased airline tickets to the Sahara Desert Round Up to escape the heat – stand by. ... -
Guess What
Posted Sunday, July 7, 2019, at 11:08 AMGuess what? There are aspects of life that I simultaneously like and loathe. On the right hand the thing is good, great, and it makes me soar in my quest for sanity in life. Yet on the left hand it drags me down to the pits of despair and insanity... -
Why we don’t go to movies
Posted Thursday, June 27, 2019, at 10:30 AM1We last attended a movie about 3-4 years ago. Several years ago we attended a movie and paid about $15 - $20 for the two of us. I laughingly said to the ticket seller, “When we were dating we could attend a double feature movie with coming attractions, a newsreel, cartoon and short subject all for $1 total... -
The only thing I ever invented was excuses
Posted Monday, June 10, 2019, at 1:29 PMIn 1905, eleven-year-old Frank Epperson combined soda water powder [precursor of Kool-Aid] and water, stirred it with a stick and left it on the porch. The next day he noted that it had frozen and the Popsicle was born. In 1922 Ralph Samuelson of Minnesota was quite familiar with snow skiing. ... -
It is March and I am tired
Posted Sunday, March 24, 2019, at 3:31 PMThe calendar indicates that it is Mid-March and I am tired. I waft back in time to Julius Caesar I would like to beware the Ides of March. – the middle. Although the winter of 2018-2019 has been milder than many I have experienced in my time on this orb, I still have grown weary of Old Man Winter’s bony cold fingers around my neck. ... -
I am a baby gloomer
Posted Sunday, March 3, 2019, at 3:00 PMOur oldest daughter is a “Baby Boomer,” coming in on the tail end of that demographic. Since I last wrote my column I have celebrated or observed another birthday. The earth has orbited the sun one more time and that makes me one year older. ... -
I may be the only warped board in the pile but I think this is funny
Posted Monday, February 11, 2019, at 2:21 PMI wish I were clever and intelligent enough to have created these words but I am not. I have been collecting them from many sources for some time and now it is time to share them with you. I make no claim of authorship. • There is a movie about a rabid motorist driving very dangerously on Nevada highways – “Weaving Las Vegas.”... -
You Might Be A Geezer
Posted Tuesday, February 5, 2019, at 11:04 PMI carved another notch on my cane this week and observed another birthday. Breaking News Alert: I have now officially lived a long time. Abraham Lincoln’s opening line for his famous Gettysburg Address, “Four Score and Seven Years Ago” has deeper meaning to me today although I am not nearly that old. ... -
Have you ever wondered?
Posted Monday, January 21, 2019, at 3:16 PMHave you ever wondered why, as you prepare to go to a job interview, you break a shoelace? Or Spill food on your new shirt? Or knock over a water glass at the gala. I know I have. Have you ever wondered why your phone goes dead at the very moment you are expecting a call or need to make one? I know I have. I abhor cell phones... -
Is God Deaf?
Posted Friday, January 4, 2019, at 12:00 AM1Greetings from SoInR. I am on the mailing list of writer and Hoosier ex-pat, Timothy Hay, who lives in Red Hook, New York. I am not sure of his age but he is a few miles south of 70. He wrote this column about his experience at going to worship on Christmas Eve at a local large church that prides itself by claiming it is a church on the move... -
Trip notes from BRANMO
Posted Wednesday, December 26, 2018, at 1:48 PMBW and I took a Holiday Trip to Branmo [Branson, Missouri] last week. I have some observations about our trip. We followed a truck from the PGT Company with a sign on the back that read, “Drivers wanted.” I pondered, for what...
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