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An American Boomer's Life: April 2014
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An American Boomer's Life. Friday, April 18, 2014. Easter; Memories of Eggs, Dogs, Cold Cuts and Japanese Tourists. 8220;New Rule: Someone must x-ray my stomach to see if the Peeps I ate on Easter are still in there, intact and completely undigested. And Im not talking about this past Easter. Im talking about the last time I celebrated Easter, in 1962.” . Gospel according to Matthew 27:50-53. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Easter; Memories of Eggs, Dogs, Cold Cuts and Japa.
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An American Boomer's Life: March 2014
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An American Boomer's Life. Sunday, March 16, 2014. COBOL, French Fries and Roger’s Sprite. 8220;The computer is a moron.” . Peter Drucker; Management Consultant. 8220;Cobol is Fun! Friday, March 7, 2014. 160; For stuff? 160; Why arent we. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. COBOL, French Fries and Roger’s Sprite. An old dog learning new tricks. Wafers- Following up on my very last message, if you'd like to devote this thread to America as a land of degraded buffoons, be my guest. A...
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An American Boomer's Life: Evacuating Suburbia
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An American Boomer's Life. Monday, March 9, 2015. Throw out them LA papers. And that moldy box of vanilla wafers. Adios to all this concrete. Gonna get me some dirt road back street. From L.A. Freeway, Lyrics by Guy Clark. 8220;Concrete and cars are their own prison bars”. From Toes, Written by Zac Brown, John Driskell Hopkins, Shawn Mullins and Wyatt Durette. Maybe the Bay Area is all of those things it claims to be but I’m not seeing it. In his novel So Much for That,. This is America and you’re ...
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An American Boomer's Life: Two Stories; Giving and Taking
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An American Boomer's Life. Sunday, February 15, 2015. Two Stories; Giving and Taking. U S Marine Jared Heine was a K-9 handler in Afghanistan. His canine partner Spike sniffed out bombs. Heine said of Spike, “He was like my brother, my kid. He slept with me every day like we were inseparable.". It just hit me if I could find Spike it would make a huge difference in his life," said Mary Heine. When Officer Taylor learned about Jared Heine she realized that she might have to give up her friend. Hell, I don...
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An American Boomer's Life: August 2014
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An American Boomer's Life. Sunday, August 31, 2014. Reporting from Washington. You hear that at least once every evening on the nightly news. That’s because DC is, as Reggie Jackson once said of himself, “the straw that stirs the drink.” Or is that Wall Street? DC isn't a Budweiser or a white wine town; it’s a Scotch rocks town. What legislator to lobby (read: buy off)? Possibly an obfuscation strategy, or for those old enough to remember, the old Ralph Kramden "Hamana hamana, hamana.". Everyone seems to...
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An American Boomer's Life: June 2014
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An American Boomer's Life. Friday, June 13, 2014. Welchie and Reggie on a Chilly Ballpark Night. The sneer is gone from Caseys lip, his teeth are clenched in hate;. He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate. And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go,. And now the air is shattered by the force of Caseys blow. From Casey at the Bat by Ernest Thayer. Saturday, June 7, 2014. 8221; No Billy Bob, that’s not what they had in mind when they named the place TARGET. . OU and Oh Dear.
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An American Boomer's Life: September 2014
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An American Boomer's Life. Thursday, September 18, 2014. On The Civil War Trail. 8220;The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things. It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.”. Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative. Excerpt of Confederate Gen. Joseph B. Kershaw’s account of the Angel of Marye’s Heights. 8220;And let the perpetual light shine upon them.”. Confederate cannons on the hills above Fredericksburg. It is not...
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An American Boomer's Life: May 2015
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An American Boomer's Life. Sunday, May 10, 2015. Baseball Takes the (A) Rod. Which he hit in the uniform of the New York Mets in the twilight of his career. It was 1973, the Vietnam War was still raging, Nixon was living his Watergate nightmare and I was just about to turn 20. . Baseball Hall of Fame. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Baseball Takes the (A) Rod. An old dog learning new tricks. OU and Oh Dear. Follow my blog with Bloglovin. 12 Years a Slave. Back in my day.
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An American Boomer's Life: March 2015
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An American Boomer's Life. Monday, March 9, 2015. Throw out them LA papers. And that moldy box of vanilla wafers. Adios to all this concrete. Gonna get me some dirt road back street. 160; From L.A. Freeway, Lyrics by Guy Clark. 8220;Concrete and cars are their own prison bars”. From Toes, Written by Zac Brown, John Driskell Hopkins, Shawn Mullins and Wyatt Durette. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. An old dog learning new tricks. OU and Oh Dear. Follow my blog with Bloglovin.
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An American Boomer's Life: February 2015
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An American Boomer's Life. Sunday, February 15, 2015. Two Stories; Giving and Taking. Saturday, February 7, 2015. Sniping Over the Sniper. George W. Bush. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Two Stories; Giving and Taking. Sniping Over the Sniper. An old dog learning new tricks. This weekend, I had a major wobble about applying for my student loan. The wobble was provoked by an email from Roehampton asking me to pay my first year’s. OU and Oh Dear. Follow my blog with Bloglovin.
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