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A few years ago, I was home in the afternoon on a weekday when I noticed a large man in the cul-de-sac. He happened to be black, but I like to think I’m not racist in that regard because I would take note of any stranger in my cul-de-sac regardless of race. For the record, . . . → Read More: The Door-to-Door Meat Salesman Growing up, there were a couple of years during which I didn’t have close friends in my neighborhood. It started when Wayne B. moved away just before Kindergarten, and there weren’t any boys my age. There were plenty of kids–a couple of girls my age, a few younger kids, and then a ton of kids . . . → Read More: Friendship Limbo But it’s the anger and frustration that ripples through the holiday crowds that truly unites us as a people. . . . → Read More: Christmas Begins and Ends at the U.S. Post Office I bought a Ford Fiesta around 1984 in order to commute from Ann Arbor to Detroit for a job while I was in college. If you’re not familiar, the Ford Fiesta was nothing like the new one; it was better than a Yugo, but not much bigger. It’s amenities were few, it’s functionality was minimal, . . . → Read More: How I learned about fan belts and self-reliance I may have become a little bit of a bore and a twit. I know my teenage children would agree, but I often catch myself explaining obscure references in conversations, and taking the discussion off track in tangents. It’s bad enough to make an obscure reference, but then to explain it in detail, and go . . . → Read More: Nose Job I am at Sterling Hunter ranch in Bath, Michigan watching a cattle auction. Most of these cows are worth nore than the car I drive so I am definitely just spectating. I have been desperate to scratch my balls for the past twenty minutes but I adjusted my glasses at some point and put in . . . → Read More: Angus Auction Afternoon they realized there is a cranky old guy who lives on this street, a guy that is willing to go all the way and do whatever it takes to stop rowdy behavior past curfew, as long as “whatever it takes” consists of calling the police. . . . → Read More: The Adventures of Cranky Old Guy It is our memory of the feelings in a given situation that our survival system uses to decide about any given current situation. Those feelings keep us out of harm, or lead us back to ecstasy. . . . → Read More: The Importance of Cucumber Sandwiches Chippy is in our local idiom for when the tackles start to get personal… . . . → Read More: Soccer Death Match 2010 One of the laptops in the house went cold a few weeks back, and it has made a significant impact on the dynamics of our family. At the time, it was the fastest computer in the house, and there was competition over using it. This loss made plain how lousy was the so-called family computer. . . . → Read More: Spock’s Brain and Miss July |
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