Current Events

It’s By Choice

Tuesday is the six-month anniversary of my new shoulder. If you’ve been reading my posts, you’ll recall that my three kids came down, one at a time, to spend a week with me during the end of September and the first part of October. Since David came first, he and I went golfing one last …

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With Age Comes Wisdom

My Grandma Tebo lived with us for a couple of years after Grandpa Tebo died.  The three things I remember most about her time with us were watching TV, going to church and baking. Her favorite television shows were Lawrence Welk, Gunsmoke and Paladin.  Paladin was really Have Gun Will Travel but she referred to …

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Thirty-five Per Cent

A friend of mine gave me a book about story telling called The Science of Story Telling by Will Storr. To tell you the truth I seldom read everything that’s given to me, but I did find one observation offered early in the book to be very interesting. Some research suggests strangers read another’s thought …

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It’s a Numbers Game

My daughter, Elizabeth, turned forty-eight on Monday.  When we spoke on the phone, she told me that she was going to start telling people that she’s fifty. She told people she was forty-seven when she turned forty-six.  She was publicly forty-seven for two years, so it seemed liked she gained a year when she actually …

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Life Lessons

Not What They Appear to Be

A tailor is preparing to eat some jam, but when flies settle on it, he kills seven of them with one blow of his hand. He makes a belt describing the deed, reading “Seven at One Blow”. Inspired, he sets out into the world to seek his fortune. The tailor meets a giant who assumes …

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Life Lessons

Just a Kid

A few years ago, my daughter in law, Lindsay, bought me a tee shirt which has Just a Kid from Detroit printed on the front. It’s navy blue with orange print. Whenever I wear it, especially in Florida, people comment on it.  They want to know if I’m really from Detroit.  They know I’m not …

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