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My Mr. Christmas

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At Thanksgiving each year, memories flood into my mind of the beautiful man I call, Mr. Christmas. My Mr. Christmas was a special person all year long but from Thanksgiving Day until New Year’s Eve Day, he was a shining light in more ways than you can imagine. Let’s just say that the character Clark, played by Chevy Chase, in Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation could have been cloned from my Mr. Christmas. Mr. Christmas spent hours drawing up a diagram of where he wanted to place lights on the outside of our home. The lights were the big old-timey multicolored on green wire...

New Landline Phone

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What do I have on my mind? >Well, it could have something to do with wanting to absolutely walk outside and toss the new home landline phone handsets into the road then watch a car run over them. Oops! See, I do have the patience to watch them get shattered but not the patience to set them up. After all, I have been setting up the old landline phone for at least ten years. Why don’t they make these things like cellphones where you touch ’em to each other like they’re mating then all of the info transfers? Is there a problem with that technology? Surely some two-year-old out there...

Writing a True Love Memoir

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When you are writing a Memoir about a true love shared with your soulmate, it can be the most beautiful experience but it can be heartbreaking at times. Frank and I married at age eighteen. We were married for nearly twenty-nine years when suddenly he was struck ill and died within six days of that illness at the age of forty-seven. While writing our love story and remembering the fun times we had together, I enter into a time machine going back to that period. Actually, I see us together as if a spectator. Actually, the best way I can describe this would be to compare it to the same...

Yep, Gonna Build an Outhouse

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Dagnabbit! What have we done with simplification? Replacing the parts of the inside of a toilet tank have gotten way too complicated. When I was around eight years old, back in the dinosaur days, my Grandparents had an Outhouse. It was really cool (well not in the summer) and actually was a four-holer. Although, I never understood why four people would want to be in there together. Inside the Outhouse, there was a Sears and Roebuck catalog. You could look at this outdated catalog or use it for its real purpose there. There was a true art to taking a page from that catalog...

Give Me a Sprain

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Well now, yesterday October 6, 2018, I turned 69 years old. Funny thing about 69, if you flip it over it is still 69. I do not have a problem turning 69 and as a matter of fact, have not had a problem turning any age as I got to it. Age is a mindset if you don’t mind it really doesn’t matter, just stay away from lying mirrors. I cover mine with sheets, walk quickly by them, or don’t wear my glasses as I look in them. It’s all a no-brainer, just use your imagination. Anyway, back to yesterday, I had an awesome morning of sitting and drinking coffee on my patio then...