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Merle Haggard (MM #1842)

Merle Haggard passed away yesterday. If you know country music I don’t have to tell you he was an icon. It took me a long time to appreciate his music. I only met him a couple of times over the years. But I’ll never forget my last encounter with him…

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Ultimate Compliment (MM #1841)

Every now and then something happens to make me feel special. We all like to feel special. But for me this simple thing is the ultimate compliment. We all have those little triggers that make us feel good, don’t we?

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Slackers (MM #1840)

I’ve been told that I have a Type A personality most of my life. It’s just just the way I’m wired. But the people I admire most, are slackers. Would they be considered a Type C personality? Sometimes I truly wish I was wired that way…

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Tossing Cigarette Butts (MM #1839)

We all have our pet peeves. One of my biggest is seeing people tossing cigarette butts out of their car window. It truly angers me when I see it. To say it’s rude is an understatement. It’s one of the things in life that angers me most…

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Iced Coffee (MM #1838)

I’ll never forget the first time I saw my mother make iced coffee. It freaked me out! Now with a Starbucks on every corner iced coffee is no big deal. I’ve never been a big coffee drinker. I drink it socially. But recently something has changed…

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Grey And Gray (MM #1837)

The fact that the word grey and gray are both acceptable drives me crazy. For some reason I always default to grey when gray is preferred in the US. I don’t why we can’t all just agree. But my biggest question… Why the difference?

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Idiot Filter (MM #1836)

I want to create an app or program of some kind that will weed out all of the junk reviews I encounter online. I call it the Idiot Filter. Now this is no April Fools joke. I think it would be a HUGE hit…

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Watching Movies (MM #1835)

There isn’t a person I know who doesn’t love watching movies in some shape, form, or fashion. But I wonder why we love some movies more than others. There are just some movies that we watch over and over and over again…

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What We Remember (MM #1834)

Do we have any control over what we remember? I was visiting a town I used to live in, and felt like I had never been there before. And I don’t think it was because things have changed that much. It made me wonder how we truly remember the things that do actually remember…

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Traveling On Route 66 (MM #1833)

I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for Route 66. Over the weekend we went traveling on Route 66 through northern and central Illinois. It was a bit sad. While the road brings back a lot of memories for me I was expecting something different…

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