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Jan 9, 19 •
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Late Sunday afternoon returned our home into a state of feline normalcy for us. It was downright quiet, in fact. We had been serving as hosts to Lucky, a cute little kitten owned by Brenna’s boyfriend Matt. He was back from school for the holidays and Lucky...
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Jan 2, 19 •
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Talk about the perfect Christmas Day for yours truly. And some of it included sitting outside on a chilly day. But that was just to make sure the Big Green Egg was up and running properly as I had the job of cooking a nice 10-pound prime rib for Christmas...
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Dec 19, 18 •
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An interesting item popped up in my Facebook feed recently: a request to take a survey to provide input on the 2019 municipal budget. Sure, I thought, I’d love to give my opinion. So I clicked on the LetsTalkChatham-Kent.ca link, registered and got started....
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Dec 12, 18 •
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As Mary Beth mentioned in her column this week, very good friends of ours are moving to Chatham-Kent this week. Some of their stuff preceded them, and they actually had items in the home they are buying way before they were to move in. That’s what happens...
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Dec 5, 18 •
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OK, you know in movies, you see a gag skit where someone has toilet paper stuck to an article of clothing or an accessory? Think Jackie Gleason in Smokey and the Bandit when he emerged with a long line of toilet paper attached to his sunglasses. Well, that...
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Nov 21, 18 •
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Many regular readers know about our cat, Finn. He’s not a normal cat, by any stretch of the imagination. I’ve called him “Satan” in the past for his devilish nature when he doesn’t get his way, but now that we let him out most evenings, he has...
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Nov 14, 18 •
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I can tell I’m in my 50s: Another week, another trip to the hospital. After heading there for an EMG test last week to check on my nerves in my right arm – I had been getting a buzzing in my right shoulder – I was back for a quick slice and dice at the...
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Nov 7, 18 •
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I’ve got a little advice for you, something learned from recent experience: If hospital staff advise you to be at the hospital at a certain time, do it. Last week, I had to see Dr. John Clifford, a physical medicine and rehabilitation doc at the...
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Oct 31, 18 •
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I use them all the time, yet when I step back, I have to admit they are really screwed up in terms of marketing. I’m talking about fast-food drive-thrus. Where else do companies want people to not even come inside their businesses? Most places with...
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Oct 24, 18 •
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Earlier this month, URIDE ridesharing came to Chatham-Kent. It was about that time that Uber, a ridesharing competitor, came to my cell phone. You should remember Uber, as that’s the company that looked at Chatham and said it wasn’t interested in doing...
