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It was a sunny Monday morning, outside Poughkeepsie, New York, and I was just leaving the customer. Stopped at a red light, I noticed the {...}
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It was a sunny Monday morning, outside Poughkeepsie, New York, and I was just leaving the customer. Stopped at a red light, I noticed the {...}
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Everyone has an earliest memory of childhood. Mine was curling up in front of the family’s floor-model Philco radio. A few years later the coolest {...}
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The Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska is where 60 percent of the world’s salmon is harvested. Ninety percent of the area’s income is made {...}
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I don’t tip some people. In fact, I don’t tip a lot of people. That would include load brokers, funeral directors, flight attendants, or folks {...}
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Truckstops are a daily fact of life for those of us who measure life in mile markers. A clean, hot shower is a daily reward {...}
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Some of our best known actors, singers, radio entertainers, and politicians don’t use their real name. They do it for any number of reasons, including {...}
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Shortly after my 50th year on God’s green earth, I decided to get a college education. Not familiar with student loan options, I chose instead {...}
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“Not much happens the first few days.” I said to my new student driver. “We’ll mostly just get to know each other.” Easing onto the {...}
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My mother was a product and survivor of the depression. Not the kind that has one feeling bad, but the kind of depression that left {...}
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I was looking at the TV news today, getting agitated with yet another political non-story, and my darling wife was getting increasingly exasperated with me. {...}