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After a couple of rather frustrating, but not totally expected, experiences involving a major bureaucracy, a brisk walk in the company of trees, flowers, birds, dragonflies and fish seemed like a good thing to do.
Without going into all of the gruesome details, let me just say that bureaucracies...
This week...we bring you a sequel: “Stupid Is, As Stupid Does – Episode 2: The Return of the Pain...”
...and, if we get around to it, you’ll get a bit of an explanation about the photographs of the birds.
You may, or may not, recall that a couple of weeks ago, your writer, for reasons unknown,...
Goodness...how is this possible? Here we are, on the 25th day of July...2019 keeps moving along at a much faster pace than necessary...
A week from today, August will make what most likely will be pretty much of an unheralded arrival. For those of us here at The Paragraph Factory, August brings the...
“Stupid is as stupid does.” And a box of chocolates wouldn’t have helped much. The chocolates just would have melted.
As you may know, “Stupid is as stupid does” were words uttered by a fellow named Forrest Gump. Mr. Gump, as you also may know, was featured in a film of the same name. Tom Hanks,...
Before we get to the good stuff this week, allow me to share a special moment of living in rural America which we experienced last Sunday evening...
Yours truly was busy doing something important on the computer. Unexpectedly, a familiar, and unpleasant aroma, filtered through our humble abode....
All of those in favor of a day or two without torrential downpours, hail, strong winds, thunder and lightning, raise your hand...
...with the seemingly apocalyptic weather we’ve been having lately in mind, let’s just figure that sometimes, life kind of goes where you don’t think it might go...
Take...
Back in the day...and we’re talking way, way, way back in the day...a goofy, geeky kid stood in the dark outside the old St. Louis Arena (may it rest in peace).
The kid was hoping to get some autographs of the players on his favorite professional hockey team. The kid spotted a car. A young woman...
Here we are again. Another flood of a lifetime. We’ll blame it on the devil.
We’ll get back to Beelzebub in a few sentences. Before we focus on Old Scratch, a little bit about the photographs you get to see this week.
These are just a few of the pics yours truly has taken during the past couple of...
Back in the day, sometime in the not-so-distant past, a sports writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote a column which sometimes delved into what I believe he called “random streams of consciousness.”
The columnist might have called the little gems that he wrote something else, too. It was a...
Maybe we shouldn’t have poked fun at zombie raccoons. Last week, as you may recall, or maybe not, we mentioned the presence of so-called “zombie raccoons” in a community up near Chicago.
Apparently, the zombie raccoons read the paper. They got the word out, and the next thing I know, a raccoon with...
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