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Kids say the darndest things at first base

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Whenever a baseball or softball player gets to first base, the first-base coach slides over toward the player and offers some information and guidance....

Autographs divided by 60 years

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Back in March, as I do each year, I flew to Fort Myers to spend a few days with my sister Joanie and brother-in-law,...

Cutting the paid TV cord

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Last week I only covered a few of the many many free TV streaming services. If you have a Samsung TV, smartphone or tablet...

NATO: Can we live without it?

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It sounds like a love story, and in many ways it has been. There have been plenty of ups and downs since the U.S....

The perfect pet or a pest?

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My mother has found the perfect pet. She just doesn’t realize it yet.A clever little red squirrel has been trying to get my mother’s...

There are those bit players

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For years, many thespians have made a very good living appearing in films as character actors, playing those bit parts so vital to completing...

Cutting the paid TV cord

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This is gonna be a long one so I’m breaking it into multiple columns because there are lots of ways to “cut the cord”...

I have a dream… a bad one

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A recent report on climate change on PBS said that the last seven years on the planet were the hottest seven years in recorded...

A magical concert by the wind

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I was “up north,” walking through the woods with an escort of dragonflies on either side, as if I were a visiting dignitary in...

Put another log on the fire

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Driving down a rural country road covered by a canopy of tree limbs last weekend, I wondered how many times I had traveled the...