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Let’s leave bridge building to the bridge builders | Whale’s Tales
I have been thinking a lot about an alarming trend in this nation that appears to elevate ignorance.
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Consider the influence of those annoying ads | Whale’s Tales
Because what we know about this election is that other nations that mean us ill — for example,…
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Winning the battle against cancer by a whisker | Whale’s Tales
It all came to my attention one morning that formerly bewhiskered areas of my face were now bare.
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We are facing an epidemic of blame shifting | Whale’s Tales
Now I’m starting to do all the healthful things I should have been doing all along. It won’t…
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Once upon a time when the truth still mattered | Whale’s Tales
We’re beating each other over the heads with “alternate facts.” It’s the tolling of our death knell as…
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Thoughts on writer’s block and other first word problems | Whale’s Tales
“I once heard an anecdote about a writer who’d spent a week in his apartment working on his…
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Ready for another cold apple from life’s vending machine | Whale’s Tales
Call it the sweetness of life.
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The aggressive in-your-face nature of online advertising | Whale’s Tales
It was 3 p.m. on a recent Friday, and there I was, at my computer, desperate to dig…
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It’s time to laugh instead of cringe at politicians | Whale’s Tales
As humorist and social critic H.L. Mencken wrote, “A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is…
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Here are some troublesome aspects of chemotherapy | Whale’s Tales
As readers of this column may know, I have terminal cancer.
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My heroes include Dickey Betts and Merriman Smith | Whale’s Tales
I admire these guys for very different reasons.
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Let’s all paws and appreciate the wisdom of dogs | Whale’s Tales
I’ve heard people say that human beings are the only creatures that know they will die.
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Snake oil salesmen thrive in the social media age | Whale’s Tales
Like Teddy Daniels, a former candidate for Pennsylvania lieutenant, who is prominently featured in a series of doomsday,…