It’s Thanksgiving 2007. Nothing special ever happens here. The family gathers, of course, but there’s a sense that it could easily be any other day of the week. We all know each other too well, and it really shows on the holidays. It has become common knowledge around the circle that Uncle Jumbo will...
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With the generous help of an overwhelming number of cheap ticket sites, I'm sure we have all bought airline tickets online. It's usually easy to pick your flight, be it the cheapest, most direct or just leaving at a convenient time. We all know what we want in those terms. But...
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On the way back to New York from our short Michigan vacation, the wife and I detoured to Meadville, PA. A modest little city in the Northwest corner of Pennsylvania where The Engineer's Uncle Brian resides. Anyone who knows the Lindsay’s will attest that they are a pack family of geniuses. ...
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I don't have the greatest memory for fables.
It still escapes me why Rumpelstiltsken wove golden thread and was then dragged to Hell, or how exactly the Chinese brothers escaped execution with their far-fetched buffoonery. I never learned anything from these stories. Satisfied that I was "learning a lesson" rather...
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For roughly ten years of my life, I was a Boy Scout.
More specifically, a Tiger Scout, Bobcat, Wolf, Bear, and a Weblo Scout before crossing the ceremonial bridge to Boy Scouts.
I was promoted to a "Boy" around the age of twelve.
Sluggishly climbing the Boy Scout ladder rung by rung, I became a Tenderfoot, Scout...
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