Published in July 30th, 2008
I am an avid reader, so much so that I even jump into my wife’s reading material if it happens to be laying around. She’s reading “Failure Is Not An Option” for work and I’d like to share some excerpts from chapter two with you guys.
This is one of those reads that has […]
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Published in July 25th, 2008
Pack 373 broke camp last weekend and I now have at least two solid outdoorsmen under my tutelage. They had a great time and learned a lot. The Webelos earned all or part of four or five belt loops and pins. We did BB Shooting, Archery, Citizenship and Smimming as advancements. We did rappelling off […]
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Published in July 18th, 2008
We’re hitting the road to summer camp!!! Yeah! Time for some high adventure for my little city slickers. As Cub Scouts they’re not going to rough it like Boy Scouts just yet. We will be in tents with sleeping bags but they’re not on the ground. They will be on concrete platforms with cots. At […]
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Published in July 15th, 2008
Readers do you remember Derrick Ashong who became blog famous for his interview outside an Obama campaign stop earlier this year? Refer back to my February 28th post on the young guy who gave answers to an impromptu street interview. Guess what? Homeboy is a singer and he’s pretty good too. Actually he’s the leader […]
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Published in July 8th, 2008
T-Boone Pickens is the first oil man putting his smoney where his mouth is, ready to seriously put alternative energy sources into play. In this CNN interview he talks about implementing a national wind power strategy to reduce American oil dependency by 1/3 according to his early projections.
Good thing the business community is finally tired […]
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Published in June 24th, 2008
The Kansas City Royals honored Jackie Robinson’s last Negro Leagues team by wearing the old school uniform as their latest throwback uniform on Sunday. Check the link.
If you’re a baseball fan you know that during the season all the teams in Major League Baseball (MLB) wear any number of past versions of their team gear […]
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Published in June 19th, 2008
Today is a momentus time of remembrance for African Americans all around the country. Many of you many not know why though so let me enlighten you. It was almost a century and a half ago on Jan 1, 1863 that President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Due to the obvious limits of communications […]
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Published in June 17th, 2008
Last week I wrote a couple of posts on upgrading your golf game and improving your public speaking skills and perhaps you thought they were interesting yet unrelated subjects. Not so, friends. I just wanted to give you time to digest both topics and allow them to sink in really well. Now I am about […]
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Published in June 16th, 2008
I did my blood test on Monday morning of last week for my first ever PSA exam. PSA stands for prostate-specific antigen. I turned 40 this year and it’s time to see if the family tendency for prostate problems is trying to minifest itself in me. Our old perceptions and taboos that we historically haven’t […]
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Published in June 16th, 2008
I heard some Wild Cherry recently and since I haven’t hit you with a good oldie in a minute I figured now would be a good time to get your motors running again.
Ready to get your day started with a jam before you hit the door? Turn up your computer speakers and make your monitors […]
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