Archive for Humor
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Just Saying…
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...
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What does it take to be a Dentist? By Q.C. Jones Allow me to explain. This article could better be summarized as a true confession. Realizing that true confessions can be self-serving, self-aggrandizing, and only good for the writer, please bear with me as I journey through my life’s exp...
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Just Saying…
April Questions By Q.C. Jones Your erstwhile friend and literary pal QC Jones has been thinking a lot lately. Perhaps questioning life, or maybe questioning the art of asking questions. Ever since I was a pollywog of a person, I have been famous for asking questions. My parents were kind and lovin...
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Just Saying…
March and one April Holiday Celebrated By Q.C. Jones As I sit down to my trusty keyboard and begin the process of writing something insanely interesting and witty about the month of March, several ideas are popping around in my mind. First thought, I could wax elegantly on special days and weeks...
