It’s happened in schools, in churches, in malls, in supermarkets, in nightclubs, in movie theaters and, yes parades. It happened again yesterday. A million people turned out for the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl Parade. It was a chance to show community pride. Get a closer look at your sports heroes. The Super Bowl is
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Seeking Sunshine
We’ve done it for a few years. We take a trip to Florida to get out of the cold, damp, and mostly miserable weather in the northeast for a few weeks in January and February. The hope is we’ll enjoy warm, sunny weather to sit on the beach or by the pool, or play golf.
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He looked about three years old. He wore a green life vest and matching green plastic goggles held in place with an elastic band. It was a beautiful, breezy beach day in mid-January in West Palm Beach. It was only the second beach day we had enjoyed since we arrived here over a week ago.
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The new year may bring us one of the most dangerous years in history. The racist and anti-Semitic language of two of the people who want to be the next president should snap us to attention. Donald Trump has done little to hide his racist beliefs. I could recite a long list. But his most
Read on »Down Under Donuts
I know you’ve been waiting for a follow-up to my blog two weeks ago about the stolen van loaded with ten-thousand Krispy Kreme donuts in Australia. The story gained world wide interest. A woman was seen on surveillance video at a gas station in Carlingford outside of Sydney jumping into an unmarked white van at
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It was 3:30am this past Wednesday at a gas station in Carlingford, Australia northwest of Sydney. A woman was seen hanging around the gas pumps near a white unmarked van. The driver was inside paying for his gas. Surveillance video shows the woman jumping in the van and taking off. We don’t know when she
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Lee Harvey Oswald began working at the Texas School Book Depository about six weeks before he became the most infamous man in the world. He was an “order filler”. He worked on the first and sixth floors. He would gather books from an order sheet and deliver them to the first floor shipping room. It
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Eighteen year of Jillian Ludwig a freshman at Belmont University in Nashville was walking on a track in a park in the middle of the afternoon this week. The bullet hit her in the head. She was found almost an hour later taken to a hospital where she died two days later. Ludwig had only
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We have one week before everything changes. We had the last late gasp of summer over the weekend when the temperature hit 80 degrees. The leaves were at their peak of red, orange and yellow. But they will be joining the dry, brown, dying leaves that have been crunching under foot for weeks. This last
Read on »Words of a Warrior
“In a contest as long and difficult as this campaign has been, his success alone commands my respect for his ability and perseverance. But that he managed to do so by inspiring the hopes of so many millions of Americans, who had once wrongly believed that they had little at stake or little influence in
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