YEARS AGO, between jobs, I spent a year or so selling ADVERTISING SPECIALTIES... THE INDUSTRY...THEN, was IRREVERENTLY referred to as ‘TRINKETS & TRASH’...HOWEVER... Within the industry there were PROFESSIONALS who SOLD THEMSELVES as experts in recommending PRODUCTS and METHODS that a customer co
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12/29/2017
Many of you, if you’re anything like me, thoroughly enjoy the CHRISTMAS SEASON...!!! I say ‘SEASON’ because CHRISTMAS is just too important to be celebrated in JUST ONE DAY...SO... For all of you who have favorite CHRISTMAS MOVIES to enjoy with family...or favorite ethnic food preparations to sha
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12/22/2017
TWAS the week before Christmas...AND... I’m so into the SEASON OF CHRISTMAS that I can’t clearly compose an interesting post...NO KIDDING... BUT...in keeping with the SPIRIT OF FRAN’S FRIDAY FORUM...I’ll give it the old COLLEGE TRY...!!! BUSY AT WORK...BUSY AT HOME...BUSY EVERYWHERE...BUT getting
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12/15/2017
One of my greatest enjoyments is recalling many of the rites of passage that I was able to enjoy in my youth... AS MORE THAN A CASUAL OBSERVER OF ‘THE SHOESHINE BOY’...I can remember how many of those neighborhood ‘oneman’ operations IMPRESSED ME...!!! It may have been the first examples of a lea
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12/08/2017
When you try to figure out when and where things in America began to go awry...WHERE DO YOU START...??? I recall, back in 7th grade (over 60 years ago), being part of our school’s SAFETY PATROL...Of course, back in those days nearly everyone walked to school... I THINK NOW...WOW...Our school must
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12/01/2017
In this day of placard carrying protesters spouting such cliches as ‘black lives matter’, ‘white lives matter’, ‘blue lives matter’, and ‘all lives matter’, each according to their own worldview or ideology... I AM HERE TO PROCLAIM...FAMILIES MATTER...!!! Believing in the innate dignity of each h
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11/24/2017
Strictly speaking ‘JOURNEY’ indicates ‘a day’s travel’, but there are journeys that last 3 days, a week, a month, a year, and indeed A LIFETIME... This post relates to ‘SHORTER JOURNEYS’...in fact...I like to refer to these as ‘SEASONS’...most people call them ‘HOLIDAYS’...BUT... TO ME...If a Hol
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11/17/2017
SO...I should have paid more attention in GRAMMAR class...BUT... A NOUN: A word that refers to a PERSON, PLACE, or THING...!!! A VERB: A WORD that typically expresses ACTION; The keyword in most sentences...!!! WHEN WE WERE CREATED WE BECAME NOUNS...PROPER ones, in fact...as evidenced by our give
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11/10/2017
Have you ever experienced being stuck in the snow...hearing your wheels spinning fruitlessly while your car becomes a real slave to the elements...getting nowhere fast...??? Is there such a thing as a ‘NATIONAL’ SIN...??? Are you aware of the sin of DETRACTION...Detraction is not a common word to
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11/03/2017
Have you noticed how polarized our nation has become...!!! We have lived under the two party system for generations now...yet never before have politicians been so divided...some refuse to even discuss their differences...SO... Essentially there is very little actual discourse where two people tr
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10/27/2017