In the past few years, mainly since I have retired, I’ve felt myself sucked into the world of jazz. Oh, I’ve always been mildly attracted to it, mainly from the more jazzy side of rock music. Bands like Steely Dan have a pseudo jazzy feel, but I have since found out that the band is […]
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Listening to some old John Prine tunes on my streaming service and my mind drifts back to my late teenage years. I was an aspiring musician, albeit with a minuscule amount of talent. I had hooked up with an older guitar player and singer, who had taken me under his wing as a side man.
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Truth be told, I am not a crook. My brief encounter with crookedness occurred when I was about eight years old. Thankfully, the benevolent powers that be did not send me off to reform school for my heinous crime. On the corner of Crescendoe Road and Perry Street, there was a marvelous little mom-and-pop butcher shop
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As I enter my sixth decade of life, I begin to wonder about my legacy. We probably all do a bit of this as we see our friends and classmates pass into the great beyond. Some even write their own obituary in hopes that they will be remembered in a positive light. Just today I
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Being an old retired guy with lots of friends and family that seem to be increasingly confused by technological, political, and societal change, I have begun to wonder. What do I wonder about? How will they all survive after I am gone. I know it seems like nonsense, since obviously life will go on and
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We had little understanding of the challenges we would face in circumnavigating our home town in the vessel that we had assembled. Vaughn’s Creek was a well known entity wherein we had fished, swam, and even attempted to jump a 3 speed Schwinn stingray bicycle over the majestic waters. Little could our tiny minds comprehend
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Now I do want to say that the names have been obfuscated by nicknames, for the protection of their privacy. My brother was a great bestower of nicknames and did indeed assign himself the moniker of “The Great Luigi” as well as the nickname of “Melvin Purvis” to our neighborhood friend. I shall not reveal
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May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home. Trenton Lee Stewart My fondest and most cherished memories are firmly planted in early childhood during the late 1960’s. Our neighborhood was filled with kids that were around the same age, attended the same elementary school, and walked both
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Didja ever think we would end up here? We now exist in an age where cellphones are such an omnipresent device, that those of us in the developed world cannot survive without them. We use them for texting, email, web browsing, Google searching, navigation in our cars, betting, and just generally passing the time mindlessly
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Why do we spend so much time complaining about things that we cannot change? Worse yet, we complain about things that have already happened. We cannot change those either because they have already happened (duh!). I wanna speak to the manager of the complaint department, assuming I could actually identify the individual responsible for my
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