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Pains, Canes, and Automobiles

Good Morning. Despite the TV commercials that show senior citizens romping around like thirty-year-olds, the aging process isn't pleasant...

Big D

Good Morning. In 1971 a wealthy inventor named Thomas Fawick donated two large statues to my city. Moses went to the campus of a Lutheran...

Gems of the Sea

Good Morning. Most families are divided into those who eat fish and those who don't, not because some are vegetarians but because they...

Shazam

Good Morning. A password used to get you into a club that held secret meetings in someone's garage or maybe a tree house. I never...

Not A Renaissance Man

Good Morning. The vice-president of the United States sold his soul to the scorpions during a recent trip to Arizona. He was born into a...

Dust and Dinner

Good Morning. As previously mentioned, my seventeen-year-old vacuum cleaner died a couple of weeks ago and my son and his wife gave me an...

Bad Stuff

Good Morning. Live telecasts used to be safe to watch but not anymore, with the possible exception of The Westminster Dog Show, The...

A Breath of Fresh Air

Good Morning. I watched the speech given by the president of France to a joint session of Congress yesterday. The speech was interrupted...

Finally

Good Morning. And then it happened in the blink of an eye, after a foolish, interminable, taunting season I promised I wouldn't discuss...

No Puce for Me

Good Morning. The design show Trading Spaces is back after a ten-year hiatus. It was incredibly popular at one time and the producers...

Class Act

Good Afternoon. The funeral of a distinguished first lady will be held tomorrow at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston. Barbara...

April Shnowers

Good Morning. The blizzard over the weekend did not feature the charming, feathery stuff that falls in December. It made its intentions...

Codswallop

Good Morning. It is supposed to rain this time of the year, but we had a whopper of a snowstorm over the weekend with another mess...

A Family Easter

Good Morning. My advice to the person hosting Easter dinner is to assign a recipe to any relative who won't mess it up. This means Uncle...

To Tell the Truth

Good Morning. I watched the coverage of the marches that took place around the country and even beyond our shores. The marches were...

Ad Astra Per Aspera

Good Morning. I went to a private girls' school founded in 1909 under the auspices of the Congregational Church. The religious...

March Madness

Good Morning. The first day of spring arrived yesterday with an inch of snow overnight, the kind you could hear as the cars went down the...

True Grit

Good Morning. Human beings are ambitious, most of them anyway. They have goals they'd like to achieve, some impossible to imagine, some...

Slainte

Good Morning. Tomorrow is the holiday when people named Johnson and Schmidt wear green ties and people named Flanagan and O'Brien wear...

Wine and Graze

Good Morning. I like smallish parties with maybe six or eight people who drink a couple of interesting wines and eat some little tidbits....

Buyer Beware

Good Morning. I do not like the great majority of television commercials. I either mute the channel or use the time to get something from...

Life In the Fast Lane

Good Morning. We used to have highway speed limits of 55 mph. At the moment it's 65 on the beltway around my city and 80 on the...

Chow

Good Morning. Regular ol' food this time around. No cocktails, stuffed mushrooms, or chocolate mousse. Pass the grits and biscuits except...

Home Grown

Good Morning. Several years ago I had a conversation with a woman who had spent her entire life on a ranch in western South Dakota. She...

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