ESSAY #100! (A Trucking Tale)
Lacking a better idea, I’m using essay #100 as an excuse to dust off and
share an old trucking diary of a week-long cross-country road trip.
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DannyM
- 7 days ago
- 3 min
OUR FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY
Andrea & I met 55 years ago. We went 32 years between our 3rd & 4th dates. She proposed a week later. We married 15 years ago this...
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DannyM
- May 22
- 5 min
WITH LOVE FROM ROCHESTER
After the recent passings of two icons, the sports world needed a feel-good moment. The PGA golf tournament in Rochester gave us a...
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DannyM
- May 17
- 4 min
THE PURSUIT OF PERFECTION
Is “perfection” attainable conformity to some hypothetical ideal? Or is it impossible to reach but nonetheless worth striving for? What...
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DannyM
- May 15
- 5 min
THE MERRY,MERRY MONTH OF MAY
Behold, the glorious month of May– bookended by a pair of epic American races, blessed in between with the color and fragrance of lilacs....
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DannyM
- May 3
- 6 min
THE MATCH WE ALL WON
While Magnus the G.O.A.T. sat aside, two imperfect chess players from two pariah nations stole the world’s heart with a match for the ages.
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DannyM
- Apr 24
- 15 min
CHESS
As the current World Chess Championship plays out, it’s time to share
some thoughts on the game I’ve been playing since the age of 6.
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DannyM
- Apr 5
- 3 min
PRODUCT ALERT– The Perfect Roasting Pan?
For some reason, this fabulous little roasting pan was WAY on sale.
It took me longer than usual to find out why.
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DannyM
- Apr 3
- 5 min
WHY MODERN BASEBALL SUCKS
The sport of baseball was once America’s “National Pastime.” Now it
is less popular than the National Football League’s OFF-season.
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DannyM
- Feb 15
- 6 min
THE MILHOUS ERA: 1969-74
Say what you will about Richard MILHOUS Nixon… his Watergate-shortened Presidency coincided with the greatest pop/rock music E-V-E-R!
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DannyM
- Feb 1
- 4 min
WORTHLESS CRAP ALERT!
Life is school, pain is tuition, and some lessons cost more than others. And for some really tough lessons we must part with cash....
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DannyM
- Jan 16
- 9 min
P-P-PLAYOFFS!?!
The NFL playoffs are indelibly associated with January. Our suggested rule changes– which would surely improve the game– will NEVER happen.
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DannyM
- May 19, 2022
- 12 min
NOTHING AGAINST CHEERLEADERS…
You’ll never win arguing politics with uninformed fools… but you can make real money betting against them, and it is 100% legal.
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DannyM
- Mar 28, 2022
- 7 min
THEY RUINED THE FREAKING SHOVEL (AND MATEUS “TRANSITIONED”)
“All improvement is change; However, not all change is improvement.” (AndyS.)
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DannyM
- Mar 16, 2022
- 3 min
MY SEMI-ANNUAL (AND MAYBE FINAL) DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME RANT
(And yes, it is SAVING, not SAVINGS.)
“Spring forward, fall back” time has arrived, this time maybe for good—
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