Last week the focus was on Seattle – the man, the chief. This week the focus is on the city, its people, and what I found there just days ago. What a town! I lived in Atlanta for 33 years and really loved it for most of that time. It’s a land-locked city, of course, [...]
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How many of you out there are good carpenters, builders, understand basic construction? How many of you know what a joist is, and can build one and put it where it belongs? What’s the lowest temp that you can successfully pour concrete? What’s the standard distance between the studs? What is a header? What is [...]
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Ever meet a famous person? A movie actress, a great writer, a Chuck Yeager, a John Elway, an Oprah or even a Ted Turner? Sure, we’ve all met them or at least seen them in person, right? They lift us beyond our daily lives for a brief moment, they touch our lives with the larger, [...]
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Remember those “back to school” writing assignments? Remember what we wrote about, how our summers really were back then? Yeah, me too. We rode our bikes down to the park, we went to the swimming pool, we played goofy-golf with our cousins, played baseball, visited Grandma & Grandpa in Des Moines, or wherever… we got [...]
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It was an uneasy feeling, a conscious cognizance of something not quite right, of an imbalance somewhere undefined, yet definitely real. Through my morning coffee and early day routine I ignored it… I’d slept poorly the night before and felt it was just a tired, “bad day” kind of feeling that would eventually go away. [...]
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Here we go again, another non-post. Am trying hard, honest… trying to keep some thread of continuity/quality for you here. My excuses are lame, at best… a great summer, special guests rolling through, a lot of activities, a new special lady friend… I know, you’re saying with all that going on, there must be tons [...]
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Some of you may have read my article on Old Trucks, Hot Rods & Gender Questions posted July 17th of this year. This is an update of what has become a continuing saga of old truck angst and how to keep the peace in an unresolved relationship in my driveway. I bought a ’59 Chevy [...]
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Fun! Isn’t that what life was supposed to be about, when we were young?? Sure it was. Let’s see… what activities did we used to connect fun with? Well, playing, of course. Going to any zoo, park, playground, dept. store with an escalator, toy shop, friend’s house for an overnight, any pond, lake or ocean, [...]
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I freely admit to some weaknesses, some I will share with you, some I will not. Three that come to mind instantly are: 1. A cold beer on any afternoon with a friend, 2. Any single woman who smiles at me, and… 3. Old trucks. Yes. I dearly love old trucks. Some of them are [...]
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I found a great old truck four years ago, in McAllister, Montana. It sat with 8 to 10 other old cars and trucks on my friend, Tiny’s, ranch. I dropped by to see him back then and spied this pretty cherry ’59 Chevy Apache sitting in his parking lot. I checked it out, it had [...]
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