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Getting A Lot Done
I have had a lot of blog readers asking me what I suggest they do for internet access now that Verizon has acquired Millenicom’s accounts and it seems to be out of the internet business. I don’t really...
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17 Years
Today is a special day for us, our 17th wedding anniversary. And what a wonderful seventeen years it has been! Terry and I had both experienced bad marriages before and neither of us was looking to get...
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My Personal Fetish
My old man used to always say that we are all crazy in our own way, and as long as your crazy and my crazy don’t clash too much, we’ll get along just fine. My career as a small town newspaper...
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Christmas In July
My folks never had a lot of money, but even when I was a kid it always impressed me that no matter how little we had, anytime a friend, or a neighbor, or a relative, or even a total stranger needed...
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Getting A Lot Done
I have had a lot of blog readers asking me what I suggest they do for internet access now that Verizon has acquired Millenicom’s accounts and it seems to be out of the internet business. I don’t really...
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17 Years
Today is a special day for us, our 17th wedding anniversary. And what a wonderful seventeen years it has been! Terry and I had both experienced bad marriages before and neither of us was looking to get...
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My Personal Fetish
My old man used to always say that we are all crazy in our own way, and as long as your crazy and my crazy don’t clash too much, we’ll get along just fine. My career as a small town newspaper...
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Christmas In July
My folks never had a lot of money, but even when I was a kid it always impressed me that no matter how little we had, anytime a friend, or a neighbor, or a relative, or even a total stranger needed...
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Why Not More Potpourri?
Definition of potpourri – 1: a mixture of flowers, herbs, and spices that is usually kept in a jar and used for scent. 2: a miscellaneous collection. The second definition above pretty much describes...
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Newspaper Days – The Pecking Order
You might think that a small town newspaper publisher’s world pretty much ended at the city limits, or no further than the county. And for the most part, you would be right. And I was always content...
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There is a popular T-shirt that I see both in boating circles and RVing groups that says something along the lines of “I’m sorry for what I said when I was backing up the RV” or “I’m sorry for what I...
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Newspaper Days – Cinderella
In my last Newspaper Days blog, titled The Pecking Order, I wrote about a U.S. senator who paid us a visit when he was making a run for the presidency. While we didn’t hear from candidates for the...
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Newspaper Days – Sometimes It Just Needs To Be Said
You know that filter we’re all supposed to have that keeps us from saying what we’re really thinking sometimes? Yeah, well, I don’t have one of those. Not having that filter comes in handy when you’re...
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Newspaper Days – No, I Didn’t
When Terry and I first got together, she was shocked by the way I treated the employees at my small town newspaper. No, I wasn’t Simon Legree expecting them to work their fingers to the bone for...
View ArticleNewspaper Days – How Not To Make It
In a previous Newspaper Days blog post titled How I Did It, I shared with you how I started out with one small town weekly newspaper and wound up with seven of them on the Pacific Northwest Coast. Now,...
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I Believe In Karma
So far in my life, I have been a soldier, a small business owner, a small town newspaper publisher, and an author, to name just a few. And while I have enoyed all of those endeavors, in my next life, I...
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Newspaper Days – Getting Hammered
The life of a small town newspaper publisher is always interesting, and though we didn’t usually deal with a lot of crime and political nonsense, I covered a few murders in my time and definitely...
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Newspaper Days – Halloween
It’s been a while since I posted anything about my days as a small town newspaper publisher in the Pacific Northwest and in Arizona, but this picture going around on Facebook reminded me of something...
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February Q&A
I’m back with more questions from blog readers about RVing, what’s happening in our lives since we hung up the keys, and all kinds of other things. While I try to answer all questions individually, I...
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