Archive for Humor
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Just Saying…
On the Road: A Thanksgiving Adventure By Q.C. Jones As strange as it may sound when applied to today’s views on personal safety, in my younger days I viewed hitchhiking as a mode of transportation. This habit began innocently enough at about age 12 with rides from my family’s home in the coun...
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Monsters I Have Known and Loved By Q.C. Jones Let’s face it, October is a spooky month. Sitting in my little hovel perched high atop the hills overlooking the Village of East Davenport and thinking about this month, my train of thought keeps jumping the tracks and crashing into Halloween. This m...
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Salmon Shorts, Affluence, and Opulent Wealth By Q.C. Jones A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to interact with several 20-somethings. Along the way I made a startling discovery regarding the concept of wealth, or at least letting its presence be known. After a hundred years and five generatio...
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By Q.C. Jones Hit Me With Your Best Shot Way back in 1980, spandex and leather clad rock songstress Pat Benatar had a catchy hit single called “Hit me with your best shot.” The song would further propel Benatar’s rise as a recording artist, personality, and MTV star. Some forty years later...
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One Day at a Time!
By Mary Schricker Gemberling “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.” ... Robert Browning I am carving a small amount of time today out my crazy busy world to get these...
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By Q.C. Jones Award Winning Journalist—Maybe, Maybe Not Recently QC Jones won an award for writing. The whole thing put me into a bit of a spin. Your pal, QC, who never suffers from the ailment of false modesty, has been torn massive braggadocio and embarrassed blushing. It might even be...
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A Pause for Poetry
By Gary Heath Poet in Residence for 50+ Lifestyles. Ridgecrest Dream on Clay I want to play the Madrid Open one day, I hear old, rachitic men are fast on clay! To be sure, one thing my old bones know, On the grass of Wimbledon, I would be slow, Yet on Spanish clay my fame might grow! So,...
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By Q.C. Jones QC Goes to the Drive-In Hello everyone, it’s your old pal QC here, and I am thinking about summer. Today’s a bright sunny warm day in our Quad-Cities, and I find myself procrastinating. Allowing a few commitments to slide, I closed my eyes and conjured up the perfect summer. Un...
