Month: September 2024
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A Vignette…..
Waiting for a lost key, listening to Kris, Merle, Johnny and Willie and thinking about running away from home and time in a long-gone ’54 Ford with a scratchy radio…. LOST MY FOB. With my apartment key attached. Other than family and loyal pets, the most important thing an apartment dweller has. Lost it. Spent a…
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A Vignette….
The rain, falling gently, lets an old guy feel lazy without feeling guilty I’VE BEEN LAZY this week. It’s not for any physical reason. It’s just the rain. I’ve always liked rain. When I was in college I had an apartment on High Street in Oxford, Ohio. It was above a clothing store and had a…
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A brief economics lesson…
Yes, a tariff is a tax. Period. You and I pay it. Any more questions? TIME FOR AN economics lesion. The word “tariff” has been on my mind the past few days. It is being bandied about it’s apparent that a lot of folks don’t know what that is. Simply put, a tariff is a tax…
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A Vignette..
Thinking about health care and wondering how some folks navigate it all on-line, and what if they don’t? And, of course, who is shut out by cost? I’m about to head over to Fern Hill Medical Campus to have a couple of needles poked into my spine. Once there they will release something the doctor hopes…
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A Vignette…
Today, I cannot love my country, not against the background noise of gunfire and the cries of children. LITTLE BOYS and girls skip down the street to elementary school, or step off big yellow buses or pile out of mommy vans, lunch boxes. Teen-agers pull into the high school parking lot, compare cars, high-five, check their…