When Labor Day started in the late 1800s, it was a day to honor the people who made their living in the labor trade unions. However, a day to honor only part of the workforce would fail. So, through the years, it became a day to celebrate the blue-collar and white-collar office workers. I’ve longed…
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It’s sometimes hard to keep up with all of the characters on TV trying to sell you insurance. Jake from State Farm, The Geico Gecko, and Flo from Progressive are some of the best-known. And while I don’t care about those pitch persons or animals, there is one insurance spokesman I love. He’s Dr Rick…
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It’s the most famous country music show and has been a part of my life for decades. People worldwide know the Grand Ole Opry. I hung out backstage for the first time back in the mid-1980s. Plus, I’ve had the privilege of watching many artists I work with perform there. I even took a busload…
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You often hear people talk about wanting to turn back time. Watching my nieces and nephews grow up, I frequently try to remember my life when I was their age—they range in age from 7 to nearly 35. And outside of possibly turning back the clock to 35, you couldn’t get me to be a…
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I feel miserable. The last week of August and the first week of September are always rough for me. Everything that I’m allergic to hits its peak every year about this time, and the weather will then determine just how bad I feel. It hit 100 degrees a couple of times this week, and you…
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People often talk about the feeling that they’re being nickeled and dimed to death. I understand the frustration. Today, if you subscribe to any software or app, there’s always another upgrade they want you to buy. I miss the days when you’d go to a store to buy the software you need, and you were…
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It always happens this way. Just when people think the weather is starting to get cooler and Fall may come early, we get hit with a heatwave. For much of this week, we expect to have highs near 100. While the daytime heat is no fun, I hate it at night. And it’s not really…
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Middle Tennessee basketball fans were frustrated yesterday. If you wanted to watch the Little League World Series championship game on ABC, you couldn’t. The Nashville affiliate, WKRN, opted to run a Tennessee Titans preseason game in its place. Usually, when something like this happens, the local TV station runs a message across the bottom of…
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No matter what you call it, soda, pop, or soda pop, we all know that experts tell us it’s one of the worst things we can put in our bodies. It can be regular or diet, it doesn’t matter. Some say the versions we used to drink years ago, while still not healthy beverages, weren’t…
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I doubt that this will shock you, but we have a problem with boredom in today’s society. Our attention span continues to get shorter. A couple of weeks ago, here on the podcast, I talked about all the time I spend scrolling. Research shows that we become bored because of all of the fast-forwarding and…
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