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This is a story that for whatever reason, I haven’t shared on this blog before.  Maybe it’s because it’s so long and many people might not have the time to read it all?  But it’s a good story, I think.  One that might have many marveling at the serendipitous nature of the universe.  Personally, I believe this is a “God thing”.  The chances of this happening as they did cannot be calculated.  And yet the elements fell precisely into place, more beautifully than anything that a person could probably come up with on their own.

I shared this story earlier a few days ago on a friend’s Facebook post, which was about her daughter happening to run into a former next-door neighbor at the Vatican.   This story is right up there with that.  So here it is.  Enjoy!

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It was the summer of 1993.  July 5th to be ...

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Lots of crazy stuff in the news this past week.  I’ve been sharing them with friends on Facebook, where they have engendered no small amount of mirth and merriment.  So I thought I’d post about them here too!

First up is this recall notice about a brand of honey that is being pulled off the shelves because somehow, somewhere along the manufacturing process, an active ingredient in erectile dysfunction medication made it into the finished product.
Next up is a story from Colorado about a man who is suing Walmart after claiming to be severely injured.  The man apparently bought raw bake-to-eat sourdough bread without first warming it up in an oven.  The bread expanded inside his stomach and allegedly brought on immense pain and suffering.
I saw that in an old episode of Emergency! awhile back.  Johnny and Roy got called to help a guy who ate unbaked
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In the past few days there’s been something of a challenge on Facebook: post a picture of yourself at age 17 along with a photo of what you look like now.  It just so happened that I had my high school senior pic in storage a short distance away from where I was sitting.  Juxtaposed with a modern photo and it’s startling a number of people.

At left is me in August of 1991.  At right is a fairly recent pic of me from late 2023.

Not that much change at all!  Well, I try to live healthy.  I don’t smoke and I only drink once a year, when I honor Dad’s memory with his favorite wine.  I exercise moderately.  I try to maintain a cheerful disposition.  Wherever I go I like to make people smile, and maybe there’s something to that too.  I do feel older though.  I feel ...

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One of the things I’ve always wanted to do with this blog is post interesting stuff.  Or at least those things that are intriguing to me.  Admittedly, that has slacked off a lot in the past several months.  Between writing my book (a project that devoured most of 2014) and then Dad’s passing a month and a half ago, this hasn’t  been the best of times to even look for neat/odd material, much less post about it.  Maybe I can do better about that in the coming year.

And fortunately good friend Scott Kelly has come to the rescue with something to kick it off with:

Cue James Earl Jones voiceover: “THIS… was CNN.”
I first heard weird stories about “the CNN doomsday tape” around the time of the Gulf War in 1991.  Allegedly, CNN founder Ted Turner has made a video that would be the very last thing that
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