Archive for Humor
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Just Saying…
By Q.C. Jones What’s the Deal with Santa Claus and Me? For those of you who are wondering, this chronicles my special relationship with the Fat Guy from up North. Allow me to recap a few family secrets. First from an early age, I realized that Santa was a family friend. My maternal grandfathe...
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November Fun Facts and Holidays
By Eloise Graham Topaz, a semi-precious stone that symbolizes friendship, is the birthstone of November. The orange-yellow stone is what we usually recognize as topaz. However, Citrine, which is actually quartz crystal is often confused with the orange-yellow topaz. Topaz actually comes in many dif...
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Just Saying…
By Q.C. Jones Could this be the end of life as we know it? Pulling from a line from one of my father’s favorite poems, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s moneymaker, Paul Revere’s Ride: “Hardly a man is now alive, who remembers that famous day and year.” The future of daylight savings ti...
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PUBLISHER’S CORNER
Some Interesting Stuff – Trivia and Such By Eloise Graham Recently, when I was sorting through myriads of papers, I ran across some things I thought you might find interesting, or boring depending on your mood. How many of you have heard that the word GOLF is an acronym for Gentlem...
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Just Saying…
Davy Crocket, John Wayne, and me By Q.C. Jones Solid American, red-blooded, heroes. I can’t imagine life without them. Throughout my life, I have been blessed to have dozens of them – all lined up and ready to serve me. Fact is, if you could peer into my brain, stare at my psyche, shake away...
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A Pause for Poetry
By Gary Heath Poet in Residence for 50+ Lifestyles I Am Crayon I am crayon, young kids like me, So much color I am, big boxed Array of rainbow plus. I like who I am, young kids wield me, draw Straight from the heart, color me Into their likes, loves, hurts, fears. What I color on their ...
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Playing the Waiting Game
... there is little we can do about this necessary but intrusive inconvenience in our lives, perhaps we should concentrate on finding ways to be more positive about it. By Mary Schricker Gemberling “Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for ...
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Just Saying…
By Q.C. Jones Inflation: A historical perspective, kind of. Have you ever looked down at your car’s gas gauge and realized that full tank from a couple days ago is below the half full, or half empty, line? Regardless of whether you are a “half full, or half empty” sort of person, you still...
