Can You Believe It?

The historic facts imparted number the hundreds, I would venture to say. Could be more, except that they were repeated over and over again, year after year. As a teacher,…

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Ol’ Jim Booker

It was just a cold night. Pitch darkness and no moon, full or otherwise. No light ‘cept for the burning planets a million miles away in the sky. And the…

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Stone-cold Con Men

NBA basketball Hall-of-Famers Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics and Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls, along with current NBA player Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks, are players…

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No Offseason

“It’s the time of the season.” This pertains to and will make the most sense for those whose locale has four separate seasons, those who do not have them and…

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Rail Route

The young man knelt down on one knee by the track, picked up the flattened penny from the spot on the rail on which he had placed it half an…

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Hacker Status

If there were any one game I can’t get down, even halfway, it is golf. Golf as a topic of conversation with someone goes something like this: Them: “Do you…

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“Look Mom! No iPhone!”

A very interesting visually recorded interview showed up on my feed the other night. In 1966, several British adolescents were interviewed about their vision of the future (circa year 2000).…

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