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Category: Musing

04/20/202304/20/2023

THE GETAWAY POSITION

Craig Breedlove recently died. He was 86.  I was kinda surprised, hadn’t thought about him in years. Brought back memories of the Mojave Desert, and the Bonneville Salt Flats.  He studied aeronautics, was a race car driver, and was called the King of Speed…clocking 600 mph in 1964, never quite making his 800 mph target…

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03/19/2023

THE MISSIONS

We are well past my birthday. As a kid I was teased a lot for Phil sticking his nose out of his burrow and commenting on the weather.  So Mom and I went to mass for my day, which was a feast day, The Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  Forty days…

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02/03/202302/03/2023

NOT THE DOG

Years ago, when marketer, editor, now agent Molly O’Neill was speaking at a writer’s conference she mentioned a book she was working on. Can’t remember the book, can’t remember the author, but I do remember Molly saying she loved the book but sent it back for edits with the admonishment, ‘not the dog.’  The dog…

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01/16/2023

TIME

About twelve years ago, on a trip to New York City, we snagged a weekend at the Waldorf Astoria, the Park Avenue well maintained, older, yet elegant hotel in midtown Manhattan East. I don’t remember much of the weekend but I do remember the scrambled eggs I had at Sunday morning breakfast. Listed on the…

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01/01/202301/01/2023

ONE WORD

I don’t commit to resolutions. I’m lousy at it. When I try for something easy…well it’s just too easy. When it’s something hard, I can talk my way out of it by the end of January. Like Lent, resolutions are a promise; a promise to either to ‘give up’ or, do something good…[in my day,…

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