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Hooked on fishing humor

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It’s been said that a fisherman is a jerk on one end of the line waiting for a jerk on the other end of the line.

When it comes to sports humor, the leader has to be fishing. Baseball may be a close second, and I think a huge reason is the length of time anglers spend together on the lake. Hours and hours of quiet dialogue will coerce long suppressed jokes, stories and eventually leads to conniving about losing whoppers. After all, the farther away the lake, the bigger the fish that got away.

One giant leap

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In the wake of the beautiful and awe-inspiring coverage of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, I have a horrible confession to make: I don’t remember seeing this historic event on television as it happened, live in 1969. It concerns me deeply: was I painting my fingernails in my lavender bedroom? Was I going around and around the Dairy Queen in a blue Chevrolet to see who was there, and to be seen? Was I using ModPodge on bottles and boxes and mirrors, as the 70s came into focus? I don’t recall.

Supporting the home team

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High school athletic events are the height of amateur athletics. There is a reason why communities across America turn out on Friday nights to cheer on their respective football teams.

Proper sweetener packet protocol

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Every family has its little traditions. Things that separate the living experience of families apart from every other family. Some of those things are horrific, I know, but some of

Abortion – Yea or Nay?

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Few issues are more emotionally charged in our society today than the subject of abortion. Each highly opinionated side has used social media, protest, and the ballot box to support

Scrapbooks can help document your year

Many interesting and special events take place during the course of a typical year. While the trend is to share photos and anecdotes via social media, these memories tend to be forgotten soon after they are posted. Rather than relegate birthdays, holidays, school milestones, and other such yearly events to the black hole of cyberspace, crafty men, women and children may want to display them in more prominent ways.

Curse worse than the disease

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EDITORIAL

Long-lauded as the alternative and promoted as safer than cigarettes, vaping is now under heavy scrutiny.

In any gathering space of humans, there will be diverse peoples who engage in diverse activities that have been labeled as harmful to the body. Overeating, drinking energy drinks, or smoking.

'Heck, no, Beto!'

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The very reason the Second Amendment was put in place is coming under fire from the very people who should never be trusted to control the weapons of a nation – the government.

Anyone with an operating brain can plainly see what is happening around the world when people are disarmed, and things do not end well for them. Once the inalienable right to self-defense is taken away, all of their other rights will follow.

The land of the lost authors

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Are you another lost author? Your beautiful or suspenseful words and creativity may be lost as those among many other undiscovered authors of the world! Your penned notes of personal history, heartfelt thoughts and rhymes scribbled in notations, diaries, or journals are filled with golden ideas and talented words which may never be discovered or shared with the writing or reading world. Often times, upon the death of an undiscovered author, their written gems may be scrapped and forever lost—forgotten, or junked in the nearest landfill.

History still teaches

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History is an amazing thing, especially as one ages. It is why watching the History Channel is incredibly popular with older adults. They have lived through many decades of events