We all know people who tell us they have hundreds of friends on Facebook, but do people really have that many good friends? Friends that would pick them up at the airport or take them to the doctor’s when getting a colonoscopy? Now don’t get me wrong, I do believe Facebook is a marvelous invention [...]
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Exercise for my flabby memory is the top reason why I put so much time writing on these blogs. If I go too long without writing, I’ll notice that I’m forgetting more words in day to day conversations – I have to keep writing to fight the decline of my mind. But am I writing [...]
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Theoretically, I like the concept of the reality show Big Brother, but watching horny kids in their twenties throw tempests in teacups becomes less appealing every year as I get older. Youth really is wasted on the young. With the first season, back in 2000, I thought it was a great anthropological experiment, with us [...]
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I discovered popular music as a kiddo while riding around in my Daddy’s 1955 Pontiac, playing with the AM radio push-buttons. This was around 1958, and I was seven. For some reason my parents didn’t have a radio in the house, nor did they own a record player and records. Music wasn’t important in their [...]
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There are two ways I measure the distance between people. The first way, physically, can be measured in inches, feet and miles. The second way has no standard of measurement, but I like to use an analogy. If two people are communing in perfect telepathy then they are zero distance apart mentally. Obviously, we never [...]
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