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On 8/25/11 around 10:40 in the morning, my grandmother, Hazel Beverly, lost her battle for life, passing away peacefully at the nursing home I’ve talked about lately. The only saving grace to the entire affair is that she left the world without turmoil and wasn’t alone, although the family wasn’t there. She was 90 years […]

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Today is the 10th anniversary of my officially starting my business. It came 2 weeks after my last “regular” job ended and I had taken some time to think about it. I actually hadn’t come to the full belief that I was going to end up being self employed, even though I was getting my […]

I have intentionally avoided mentioning anything on Father’s Day for years. It’s because my dad passed away on Father’s Day in 2002, though the date then was the 16th instead of the 19th. I’m not a father, and I probably will never be one. I’m an only child so I’m not an uncle either, although […]

Wow. Last night I was going into the kitchen to clean up from a lot of cooking done earlier in the day. I decided to turn the TV on in there, and since it was about 5 minutes after 10PM I decided to go to CNN since, as far as I knew, all sports activity […]

There really was a heyday of boxing, when it meant so much more than just two guys getting into the ring and slugging it out. The first Ali-Frazier fight was the culmination of that heyday. It’s easy to see it as just two people getting into a ring and duking it out for 15 rounds, […]