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Always Be What You Is
Today’s number: 17.3 stone When I was a kid, I used to watch a lot of cartoons. They were great back then. Superheroes. Herculoids. Foghorn Leghorn. Tom and Jerry seriously murdering each other. The later Saturday fare (Archies, Smurfs, The Banana Splits, et. al.) always seemed to feature insipid characters trying to indoctrinate the viewer…
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Turning 50
This post is a bit premature as I’ve still got a year to go or so (Jan 17, 2010). Nevertheless, given the significance of the semi-centennial, I am starting my party planning early. It is my sentiment that celebrating the big “L” (as Julius Caesar referred to it) should be a significant event. What I’ve…
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Living, Aging and Dying
Today’s number: 17.9 stone First, my apologies, in advance, for bumming you out. Although not my express intention, today’s topic is hardly uplifting. That said, let me start out with a poem, one I recently forwarded to a friend turning 50: On Himself by Robert Herrick A wearied pilgrim I have wander’d here, Twice five-and-twenty,…