Category: People
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Love and Memories: A Wedding Story from 1973
Funny how a Kentucky morning can set your mind wandering. The light came in low and gold across the back pasture today, and somewhere between the first cup of coffee and the second, I found myself thinking about our girls’ weddings—all four of them, those daughters of ours who now have little ones (including our…
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Friends?
What’s more damaging to our national discourse and the education of children? An utterly ignorant fool who knows nothing, or a half-informed zealot armed with dangerous fragments of knowledge? Let me put it to you this way, like a Kentucky farmer explaining the difference between harmless garden snakes and venomous copperheads. Is someone who has…
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The Art of Living Beyond Outrage
In my old age, I often wonder what is worse: the pearl-clutching Karens (all genders) who transform a lukewarm latte into a five-alarm human rights violation, or the doom-prophesying Chicken Littles who interpret every passing cloud as the harbinger of collapse. Both species strut through life with the self-importance of peacocks, their faces flushed with…
Old Man Pondering 