life
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Mushrooms
I’m sure my daughter would tell you that I often try to make a life lesson out of everything…or at least that is how I interpreted the eye roll. When she was a teenager and was beginning her dating experience, one piece of advice I gave her was to look for the guy who would Continue reading
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Some of My Core Beliefs…
NOTE: I wrote this in August 2012, when I first sought elected office. I first took an oath to support and defend the US Constitution when I was seventeen. It was 1976, and I was only a couple of months out of high school when I joined the Iowa National Guard. I celebrated my eighteenth Continue reading
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Not a real call…but this is how it feels
Police Dispatcher: Police Department, may I help you? Caller: Yes, I just came home from work and found that someone had burglarized my house. Dispatcher: Did they take anything? Caller: Well, I’ve checked everything and I found that my emergency money is missing $485, it looks like they had a good lunch out of my Continue reading
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Driving…and moonshine
When I was 14 or 15 (in the early 1970’s), my father was teaching me to drive on the dirt roads of Middle Tennessee. During one such lesson, he told me that when he was my age he was running moonshine, but never explained or really mentioned it again. Although, I do recall a trip Continue reading
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What?
If you read my profile you will find that it says that I am “a son of Tennessee, born in exile”. You may wonder what that means. My ancestors arrived in Tennessee in 1804 and remained there until 1957 when my parents married and moved from Middle Tennessee and went to the Chicago area, where Continue reading
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Greetings…
I often have random thoughts I would like to write somewhere…so I’ll put them here. Perhaps, I will be the only person who reads them, or perhaps twenty years from now my grandchildren will find these writings. Anyway, it is more for me than anyone else. I just want to jot a few things down. Continue reading
Tennessee Drifter 