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Yet another day of driving, relentless rain. Pouring down for hours and hours upon ground already sick and tired from being sick and tired. It's a week…
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The border. Just saying the two words can start an argument. We're a nation of immigrants who don't much like immigrants anymore. What happened to us? …
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There’s always been a part of me that enjoys reading about baseball more than actually watching baseball. I’ve got stacks of baseball books. Everything…
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The classic 5-piece Badlees line-up will re-unite and play a full set of music for the first time in almost 20 years this weekend in Pittston. Their in…
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Football is back. Stadiums are filled to the brim, Covid be damned, and I'm selfishly enjoying every minute of it. I still cringe every time they show …
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The myth of memory. I think the reason we re-tell the same stories over and over is because we never quite tell them the same way twice. Something is a…
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It's post-Labor Day, so summer is mercifully over. Evenings have a definite snap in the air now, and even if the heat hangs around during the day, it's…
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I got the text from a friend early Wednesday afternoon. "It shifted east." "It" being hurricane Ida, which was staggering towards the northeast like a …
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And now it's Ida. It hit 16 years to the day that hurricane Katrina devastated portions of the gulf coast. And it looks to be doing the same grisly wor…
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Everybody was waiting for that 2020 New Year's Eve ball to drop. It was gonna be a new start. A rotten, stinkin' carcass of a year was finally gonna be…
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The news just flashed across my facebook feed. Charlie Watts is dead. The world's greatest rock and roll band has lost the guy who shoveled the coal in…
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