Back To Work
posted 02 August 2010 in My Family, Thoughts
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After 16 months as a lay-about, I’m finally employed once again, and completed my first day at the new job today. Before this, I had never been without a job for as much as one day in some 32 years. Unfortunately, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and finally got caught in a company-wide layoff.
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An Open Letter To My Teen Children
posted 28 March 2010 in My Family, Thoughts
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What is it about children that makes a father adore them?
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Threshing Bee
posted 23 November 2009 in Thoughts
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I’ve been digitizing home movies from 8mm video tape, and ran across one from our 1996 vacation to see my parents in the Black Hills. On this tape was footage of a side trip we took to a threshing bee in Sturgis, South Dakota.
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On Aging
posted 27 October 2009 in Thoughts
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I was having a conversation with a friend recently, in which she made the comment, “Getting old is not all it was cracked up to be.” I totally understand the comment seeing as how I’ve passed the half-century mark myself. But then I started to wonder what aging really means.
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Conversion to the Dark Side
posted 12 October 2009 in Thoughts
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Well, my conversion to the Dark Side™ is nearly complete. I have signed up on Twitter.
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Pitiful Dog
posted 06 October 2009 in My Family
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Sadie developed a rash on two of her paws that we didn’t notice until a couple of weeks ago when she started licking at it. Because she was in discomfort, we went in to see the vet, who diagnosed it as an allergy. To what, we don’t know, since we can’t think of anything that has changed in our home recently.
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