You Say Tomayto, I Say Tomahto
My brother was here over the weekend and left yesterday morning. That’s how I came to get behind on my blog entries in the past few days. He didn’t come all the way down here to watch me write “Things...
View ArticleA Friend Speaks Of Thanksgiving
Excerpt from a conversation explaining Thanksgiving Day to a non-American colleague:FRIEND: "REALLY, so there are NO presents at all? You just have a big dinner, think and talk about all the things you...
View ArticleA Death In The Area
Yet another soldier from this area lost his life in a far distant country. As usual, a young man who would have had a great place in our society as planned by his Creator, rather than stopping a...
View ArticleWhat Goes Around, In Three Days
I have heard it said, as reliably as anything you see on the Internet, that any joke, any visual sort of comic thing, makes it way around the net in three days. After that, it disappears. Or, to put it...
View ArticleMore "Overheard In New York"
Grandmother reading newspaper: Oh, it's grandparents' day tomorrow!Grandfather: It can't be. That's in February, I think.Grandmother: It says it right here.Grandfather: But it has to be in winter,...
View ArticleWHERE I'VE BEEN
I received a major writing assignment which has taken all my online time, at least as far as keeping up with a daily blog. I'll be back after Christmas. Promise.Stay tuned.
View ArticleI'm B-a-a-a-a-k!
I just finished a long and difficult writing project which took all of my time (except for my regular newspaper column) and it's back to the blog. Tell all your friends and relatives that Things At...
View ArticleArnie "Woo-Woo" Ginsburg
“Happy Woo Year,” we heard over the airwaves each New Years’ Eve, as the radio signal bounced our way from Boston’s WMEX. Arnie “Woo Woo” Ginsburg was on the air and all was well with the world. At...
View ArticleThis Family Tree Is Long
The jellyfish has been around for 600 million years, which I just learned from the Discovery Channel a few minutes ago. That’s a long time, which you know.My brother is the family genealogist and for...
View ArticleWe Did Prohibition One Better
What the feds couldn’t do eighty years ago, we did in one day: the speakeasy down the street disappeared in a blaze of glory and a bulldozer.It hasn’t been active in many years, of course, but it was...
View ArticleExactly What Do I Want To Copyright?
Oh, there's just dozens of things in the Public Domain. The copyright symbol, for one. I don’t see a copyright symbol after it, which leads me to believe it’s not legally protected. Think of how many...
View ArticleI Never Realized How Lucky I Am
You see, my grandparents were not at all affectionate. I lived with them for nearly eight years and never saw a hug, much less a kiss. No snuggling in front of the radio or tv; separate bedrooms, that...
View ArticleI'm Grateful To...
My grandfather for teaching me, at a young age, not to turn car tires when the vehicle is stopped because it will wear out the rubber. Now, when I am backing or going forward, I turn the wheels only...
View ArticleIt Happens Every Other Day
It’s the end of the world. It’s a sign of the end of the world. It’s God sending us a message. It’s aliens.It happens, on the average, every two days: a massive kill-off of birds, fish, animals....
View ArticleSinging In My Baritone Voice
When I go over to the Citizens’ Voice newspaper at night to pick up my copies for the morning radio program I do for the visually impaired, I serenade the workers.Specifically, I do selections from the...
View ArticleWolves Were Snapping At Their Feet
As I drove through the dense woods, I saw a pack of wolves in the distance, their heads down, gathered around something. It appeared they were feeding on some helpless animal who was unable to outrun...
View ArticleYou Never Know (by Jim Carten)
While driving through Ontario this week, I heard twice within an hour a song and the one phrase that remained in my mind over the years has been, “You never know how much you got ‘til it is gone.” So...
View Article"Your Call Isn't Important To Us."
“Hello. This is United Association of Associations.”>>Hi. This is Tom Carten…“Your call is very important to us. At the moment, all our representatives are busy with other customers. Please stay...
View ArticleDriven To Distraction
Exactly where is “Distraction”? I’ve been driven there many times, but I just can’t locate it. Tried my National Geographic atlas, to no avail; ditto the Merriam-Webster Geographic dictionary. Even...
View ArticleJan. 13 or Jan. 20?
Well, this blog is being published on January the two and zero, despite any attempt of mine to have it honestly slugged as Thursday the Thirteenth.Lots going on here at North Franklin that has (or is...
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