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one of the others
With all the recent uproar concerning the DACA dreamers and the whole immigration thing in general I am reminded of a blog I wrote some time ago. It is just confirmation that not much changes in the world. That blog… Continue reading
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my day
Seventeen years ago today I became a grandfather. Okay, so my grandson and daughter in law had a little to do with that, my son too, but I became a grandfather. It happened about five in the evening. Now, being… Continue reading
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Joan Marie
Today we remember a birth. Seventy five years ago my wife’s sister was born. She didn’t know she would become a big sister, a wife, a mother and a grandmother. Yet, Joan Marie became all of those things and so… Continue reading
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something new
I saw another change last evening. The wife and I were going out to dinner with my son and his family. My grandson Mark will celebrate his 17th birthday this coming Tuesday. Last night after dinner we were going to… Continue reading
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voting your conscience
Woke up to find the government is shut down. Business as usual. I’m not going to discuss the merits or lack thereof in this posting. I’ll just wait and see. All I will say is in the final analysis it’ll… Continue reading
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a gift
Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. The above list, if you are not familiar with it is called ” The Seven Social Sins ” and… Continue reading
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plastic heirloom ?
A heirloom is something of special value handed down from one generation to another. The item itself does not necessarily have any monetary value, the value lies in sentiment. I jokingly call many things I have heirlooms. I tease the… Continue reading
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Challenged
I’ve heard about this Tide Pod challenge. I really don’t get the challenge. Is it to eat the thing or what ? Okay, I admit it, I really haven’t read much about it immediately dismissing it as stupid. It doesn’t… Continue reading
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A moral obligation
I just read about a man that was deported after having been here for twenty five years. He was married to a citizen, had children and is retired from the Ford motor company. Very sad. The article didn’t go into… Continue reading
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an emergency
I keep hearing about the Salvadorians that are being impacted by the ending of the TPS program. I’ll begin by saying this, the first word in that program is Temporary. Self explanatory ! The second word was protected. Being… Continue reading