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November 14, 2009 07:00 PM EST --
I might be the only male resident of Michigan who is not spending these early days of November stockpiling ammunition and Slim Jims in anticipation of deer season. It’s not that I object to . . .
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November 01, 2009 01:57 PM EST --
Well, it's another Autumn here in Michigan. Tigers fans are trying to get excited about watching the Yankees and the Phillies in the World Series; hunters are polishing their bullets and stockpiling . . .
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October 15, 2009 02:49 PM EDT --
Well, they pulled it off. My son and my New Daughter (that "in-law" stuff seems like a pretty impersonal way to talk about the love of my child's life) have joined hands and become husband and . . .
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October 09, 2009 04:07 AM EDT --
The kids will be getting married in less than a week now. I find myself walking around with a big stupid grin on my face at the thought that my son - who I am pretty sure does not yet know . . .
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October 01, 2009 09:42 AM EDT --
I received a pretty unique voice mail the other day. According to the caller ID it was from a friend who likes to talk almost as much as I do, so I was not all that surprised to see that her message . . .
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September 23, 2009 03:37 PM EDT --
I moved to Southeast Michigan on a blind date in the Spring of 1975. When I arrived I was a White Sox fan, mostly because I had spent my formative high school years within easy obscenity-shouting distance . . .
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September 16, 2009 03:31 PM EDT --
My son is going to get married in a little less than a month. For Nan and I this is the coolest thing ever, since we are crazy about his fiance, her parents, her brother, her friends - and her taste in . . .
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September 09, 2009 02:07 PM EDT --
"So what's on your minds, guys?" It was a really open-ended question to ask a group of incarcerated teenage boys, and the range of answers I got pretty much lived up to my expectations;
"Eatin' . . .
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September 02, 2009 12:22 PM EDT --
Who'd have thought good crops Could come from a bad seed?
It was a pretty good line in a really good poem, entitled "Look At Me," by a seventeen year old African-American poet named Donald. This . . .
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August 26, 2009 12:20 PM EDT --
His name was Ryan, and he was not the most popular guy in the group. He was a big country boy with big farmer arms and a big farmer face, the kind of kid some people might call a "bumpkin." On this particular . . .
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August 23, 2009 04:12 PM EDT --
She wore a baggy purple shirt over baggy purple sweat pants. Her hair was chopped short and her body was padded with a layer of soft flesh that bore tribute to the starchy diet of incarceration. She . . .
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August 12, 2009 01:55 PM EDT --
Last week I mentioned that men can't help looking at women, especially when a little bit of cleavage is involved. I admit that this is about as startling as saying that the sun rises in the East or . . .
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August 06, 2009 05:02 PM EDT --
OK, this is going to come as a shock to a lot of you. It is not the kind of thing I ordinarily discuss here. In fact the only reason I'm doing it at all is that, now that President Obama has everything . . .
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July 29, 2009 03:48 PM EDT --
A friend just sent me a very cool link to a YouTube video shot at the wedding of a couple named Jill and Kevin. It consists of the wedding party entering the sanctuary of the small Minnesota . . .
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July 22, 2009 03:51 PM EDT --
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that someone had replaced my home page with a picture of a monkey holding a gun, despite all sorts of server and network security. I have passwords for my passwords, . . .
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July 15, 2009 12:39 PM EDT --
I love email.
I think email just might be the most powerful communication medium ever invented. Think about it; in a matter of seconds I can fire off a note to a reader in Jakarta, Indonesia thanking . . .
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July 15, 2009 09:46 AM EDT --
Here in the twenty-first century it is important for a writer to be technologically up-to-date. At a moment's notice w e have to be ready to Google, Yahoo, Digg, Backflip, Gather, Bebo, Plaxo, . . .
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July 01, 2009 03:25 PM EDT --
Well, here it is – the Fourth of July Weekend!
Sweaty Americans from sea to shining sea will be dumping something like 150 million bags of crushed ice over 1.1 billion cans of beer in coolers, . . .
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June 24, 2009 12:57 PM EDT --
This past weekend was the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. Each year thousands of latter day Druids celebrate the first instant of the summer season. They congregate to share, discuss and . . .
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June 20, 2009 11:18 AM EDT --
Yesterday, one of my favorite people left our world behind.
Her name was Donna Lemon. She had a gentle voice, kind eyes, blue hair, and a sometimes unnervingly knowing smile. She also knew enough about . . .
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