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Category Archives: Characters
Ten Things To Pray For In The Year 2014: # 5 Focus
Hang around me long enough and you’ll hear me talk about “focus.” Not only have people told me that, I recognize it is true. It is so important to me because I know from the Word of God and from … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Dreams/Goals, Life
Tagged Christianity, focus, goals, Life, prayer, race, singlemindedness
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Rejecting the Refrigerator
Is anyone else tired of chicken? Not just any chicken, the plain chicken you get in the grocery store that you have to take home and put in the refrigerator. That chicken. That kind of food. I’m tired of tasteless. … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Culture, Food, Health, humor, Language, Life, Men, Nature, Photography, Politics
Tagged America, Appalachia, chemically addictive ingredients, conspiracy theories, culture, food, fried chicken, health, intelligence, Kentucky Fried Chicken, KFC, Mike Myers, movies, photography, purpose, refrigerators, rejection, relationships, The Weekly World News
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Meeting my favorite artist
I didn’t have it on my “bucket list.” I had no idea he would be there. But when I walked into the art gallery this evening, my favorite living artist stood near my favorite painting in the whole wide world. … Continue reading
I’ll take 100 bayonets, a refrigerator, and an oscillating fan
What can you do with a 100,000 dollar helicopter missing a wing? Or, a Humvee with no engine block? How about 100 Reagan-era bayonets? Apparently, you can use them in a small town police force, even if the only dangerous … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Culture, Economy, humor, Life, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged America, audits, DOD, federal government, giveaways, government, humor, inspections, inspectors, Life, materials, military, news, police departments, politics, USA
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all the friends in the world…
I gotta admit, I don’t like some people. I love them. They’re the kind of people you want to make laugh- the kind of people who smile like when the sun comes out, the kind of people who just brighten … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Culture, humor, Life, Men, Relationships, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged America, culture, friends, happiness, Life, loneliness, Mama Boucher, men, movies, processes, relationships, smiles, social networking, the blues, the world, women
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Viva La France!
Today I met two frenchman and a french woman at a convenience store. They were outside, huddled over a map of West-By-God-Virginia, while I stared up at the rocky crown of Snowshoe’s neighboring mountain. (Snowshoe is a famous ski resort) … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Culture, Food, humor, Language, Life, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged culture, French, Language, Life, Mountains, Snowshoe, tourism, tourists, travel, West Virginia
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bananas, bloating, and the new job search
it’s the end of the world as we know it, and I don’t feel fine. My stomach has been on the agitation cycle, some unknown substance or condition has made me feel two months pregnant (and I’m a man!), and … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Economy, humor, Life
Tagged America, bananas, bloating, careers, economy, employment, full time, job search, jobs, Life, loneliness, new, part-time, personnel, teaching, USA, world
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Step Away From the Laptop: How To Wipe Out Writer’s Block
And now for something so different, so amazingly useful…that you will never ever get writer’s block ever ever again! Ten Ways to Defeat The Evil “Writer’s Block:” 10. Step away from the laptop. Next, put on some “outdoor clothes,” get … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Culture, Fiction, Food, humor, Language, Life, Men, Music, Nature, Relationships, theater, Uncategorized, Women, Writing
Tagged Bach, Beethoven, Bite the wax Tadpole. music, broccoli, Characters, chemist, cloaking device, culture, Language, Life, math, Mountains, naked mountain climbing, Star Trek, Writer's Block, writing
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Top 10 Reasons Not To Watch Current Hollywood Movies
10. Too many movies based on an overuse of green screens. 9. No creativity, it has all been done before. Besides, I’m not into comic books, I’ve grown up. 8. Some stuff is so weird, you wonder what drugs they … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Culture, Doctor Who, Fiction, Hobbits, humor, Life, Morality, Politics, theater, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged culture, End of the Spear, entertainment, fail, fails, green screens, I am Gabriel, Johnny Depp, Life, movies, Star Trek, summer, The Hobbit, The Jerk
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