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****Last spring, when the current administration decided to do a more than thorough Spring Cleaning of government workers, I was more than a bit sad. It's a lousy job market; it was a surprise massacre, vital work was disrupted, and careers were smashed. Within six months, many were emptying their retirement accounts to cover health …
Let's file this one under the "do tell!" category: Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government, too. - Richard M Nixon
Complicated is fun, rewarding, and great for developing your career. For many years, I had a rewarding but stressful life with a complicated relationship with management. We all yearn for revenge against an unfair and hateful boss. But I learned that the old saying is true that the best revenge is a life well lived. …
And the number is: 247 The first two pieces are small carvings from post WWII Occupied Japan Sabrina is getting ready to take a nap on her Afghan -"Yes, what do you want now!" My Faithful Magic eight ball. An old movie prop in an exhibit.
I'll start in March of 1969. The drifts of dirty snow in Portland, Maine, were getting depressing. My girlfriend at the time was upset that my attachment to the Road was greater than my attachment to her, and I was getting eager to get out of Winter Quarters and hit the road again. The solution …
I've aged out of my martial arts training thanks to arthritis, but many of the lessons I learned in Judo as a young man and Iaido as an older one, persist. One of them is a Zen Buddhist concept, Shoshin - or beginner's mind. When we start learning a new art, language, craft, or other …
I got into reading Science Fiction one hot summer when I was a kid. My summer job, if you were the kid of a superintendent, you always had a job- washing windows. During a break in work, I discovered an ancient Ace Double Novel ( two brief novels packaged as one) and spent a big …
Physical fitness, neuroplasticity? Important words for our overall well-being. There's no getting around it. We all need a fitness regime, especially as we get older. But for most of us, we stop at the physical. That little trifle we call the mind gets left behind. Think of it, we exercise the body, but not the …
There is a lot of romanticizing about being on the road. And Jack Kerouac's book On the Road is responsible for lots of it. The Romance of the Road? You bet. Having been on the road myself for several years, I found familiar passages and events in it that I found reflected in my own …
It's an old gardener's cheat. Buy one plant and propagate it via slips so you have three or four. Well, not only is it too cold to put things out, but frankly, prices have skyrocketed. So I've resorted to an old trick of fast propagation via slips. I'm using the delay in setting out to …
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