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B.S. Alert
Recently I watched both the Republican and then the Democratic National Conventions and I listened to and studied the speakers and it suddenly hit me as I watched Bill Clinton speaking, just how far the […]
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Our Frirst Newsetter
I remember the day I first started writing a newsletter. It was in 1988 and I had just returned from the National Safety Congress at McCormick Place in Chicago. As I recall I had done […]
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Lord make us instruments of Thy peace.
“Lord make us instruments of Thy peace.” This idea came to me recently as I watched a press conference involving those police leaders in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, following the murder of three policemen. One opened […]
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Power of Music
At a Yard Sale recently I purchased a CD Set titled “The War Years, Your Hit Parade.” I’d been playing it for about a week in my office when I received a phone call from […]
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It Only Hurts When I Frown
I can still remember that Sunday morning in 1973 when a Father Farrell visited our Catholic Church in Battle Creek, Michigan. He spoke at all the masses soliciting subscriptions for a monthly magazine called Liguori. […]
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America 2016 Art Fettig
Happy Birthday America and Congratulations! It continues to amaze me how an old timer like you just goes on and on. It must not be easy to survive as a nation these days. What is […]
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Driver License Renewal
My 87th birthday is coming up and my driver’s license was about to expire. When I got it five years ago, I figured that I would expire long before that license did but such was […]
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Punctuality
In 1999 I wrote a children’s song which Greg Brayton and I recorded. Here are some of the lyrics. Punctuality, punctuality, That rare quality Of being where you oughta when you oughta be. Being […]
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The Greatest
When Cassius Clay was interviewed before his first world championship boxing fight he announced to the world “I am the greatest!”. Now, Muhammad Ali has died and all over the world reporters and news people […]
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Talking to Cell phones
He was just six weeks shy of his 87th birthday that morning when he walked into the Hillview High School main door and before he even got to the front desk he was met by […]