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Quoting Loudon Wainright from 1972, “Crossin’ the highway late last night; he shoulda looked left and he shoulda looked right. He didn’t see the station wagon car; the skunk got squashed and there you are. You got yer dead skunk in the middle …
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By Doug Blough
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5/1/18
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Most recently, it has come back in the form of disputes over a bunch of monuments honoring people who fought for the Confederacy. Apparently there are around 1,500 such memorials across the South — so many that, if a guy didn’t know better, he …
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By Don Amend
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4/24/18
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The older you are, the more you are aware of these truths, and you may not be entirely happy about that, because you may be having trouble keeping up with the changes.
Back in 1970, a guy named Alvin Toffler explained the problem in a book about …
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By Don Amend
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4/12/18
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It never occurred to me last Wednesday that it was the first day of spring. That isn’t surprising, because I’m not much for celebrating, or even remembering individual days of the year. There are a few that are really important, like Christmas, …
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By Don Amend
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3/29/18
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You think I mean to turn this into a trite treatise on how Europe’s rich and storied history spans so much farther back than the United States’. But no — that’s too obvious. When I tell you I’ve traveled back in time, I mean within the …
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By Virginia Schmidt
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3/27/18
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You may already know the bittersweet, inspirational love story that brought my big brother (I’m the youngest, ya know), Paul, and Jane Miller together. Cancer stole both their happy marriages to the tune of 81 combined years, so in a backhanded …
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By Doug Blough
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3/20/18
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In other words, humans seem to have an inborn need to fight about something, and if there isn’t anything important to fight about, they will make up something. Wars have been fought since prehistoric times and, as we are all aware, continue even …
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By Don Amend
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3/15/18
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“And the 10 adjectives and five adverbs stuff, I mean, really. Stop. Stop with all the inflated distraction. It really takes away from your writing. Just say what you want to say. Say it simple. Say it straight.”
Tears begin to stream down …
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By Virginia Schmidt
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3/13/18
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Consequently, we once again find ourselves looking for some way to solve the puzzle of why someone takes such deadly measures and stop such rampages before they begin.
Allow me to say up front that I’m not going to blame guns for causing such …
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By Don Amend
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3/6/18
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I wonder, for instance: when was the last time I looked at my phone from this far away? Not literally, but figuratively — to figure, relatively and honestly, how paramount it’s become in my experience.
It started a couple months ago on a …
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By Virginia Schmidt
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3/1/18
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There were Indian singers and dancers, a magician’s act and, of course, birthday cake to celebrate the 172nd birthday of William F. Cody. At the last minute, the scheduled appearance of a Buffalo Bill look-alike was canceled due to …
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By Dave Bonner
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2/27/18
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To be really smart, though, if there is something you don’t know, you have to realize you don’t know it, because you can get in a lot of trouble if you don’t realize it.
Which brings me to the subject of this essay, something that I’ve …
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By Don Amend
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2/22/18
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That’s how romantic holidays are for us bachelors who haven’t dated for a coon’s age. We love our pets passionately and fantasize about TV vixens. I’m between big screen girlfriends, but Fox News’ Kimberly Guilfoyle is a …
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By Doug Blough
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2/20/18
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It’s a kaleidoscope of color dominated by the neon yellows, oranges, greens, pinks and purples of the biking faithful, interspersed with their supporting blacks. The runners are no color slouches, either.
The walkers? Anything goes.
And I …
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By Dave Bonner
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2/15/18
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Most of the feedback is positive. It is delivered face to face and comes from people who like what I write, agree with what I say, or both.
Less often, I receive negative feedback, which usually arrives via email, but occasionally is delivered by …
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By Don Amend
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2/13/18
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I remember looking up at my reflection sprawling across the span of my childhood bedroom’s mirrored closet doors and discerning how very alone I was; alone but for the book spread open in my hands. I felt jealous of the book’s main character — …
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By Virginia Schmidt
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2/8/18
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My parents bought me a BB gun while I was still in elementary school. From there I moved to a .22 cal with a scope, then shotguns, handguns, rifles and even black powder. I’ve been lucky enough to experience great hunts and days on the range …
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By Mark Davis
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2/6/18
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I’ll begin by telling a little story about a beautiful woman wearing black shoes, singing on a Sunday afternoon two years ago in Santa Clara, California. A thousand miles away, a young man with a dream paid particular attention to those black …
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By Doug Blough
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2/1/18
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This was why I went to the march, joining those 300 others gathering and encircling in the heart of Cody: To be kind to myself.
As I stood shivering in the blinding biting cold blue of the Sunday afternoon, I felt a warmth welling up inside me. …
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By Virginia Schmidt
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1/25/18
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