Eight Days to Amish

No Paychecks . . . No Prospects . . . Always How one writer struggles to elevate from the hammock, overcome his God-given laziness and earn a living in a cruel world that insists he work. (The title of this blog is in no way aspirational or should be considered an endorsement of the Amish lifestyle)

Thursday, November 11, 2010

My goodness, a trip to NYC

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I’d loaded my bag into the trunk, slammed the lid and took one last look up at the house. A could see tears lining the eyes of the 10-year-...
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Eat at Sonoma Grille! I ethically ask

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One of the most confounding aspects of what I for lack of a better word call my “career” is the arc of my ethics. It’s gone completely in r...
Sunday, November 7, 2010

Make Daylight Savings Time weekly

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I love this turn back the clock thing so much, I wish we could do it once a week. The cool thing about this is in 20 years, we’d only ...
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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Standing is the new sitting

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So I’m sitting here trying to think of a decent blog idea and all I can think about is how I wish I were laying here trying to think o...
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

At least my hair's growing up

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Barbers look at my hair the way gardeners look at weeds. That’s the sense I was getting the other day when I told the gal who cuts my hair...
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Saturday, October 30, 2010

I Pledge Allegiance to The Pledge of Allegiance

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I realize it’s been 48 hours since I pledged I would refrain from all political writings until 2012.  So sue me for flip-floppery. Strip me ...
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Election thoughts from a non-angry voter

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(As noted in comment below, observant reader Emily Suess remarks how the picture I selected makes it look like Beck and I are both staring ...
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I'm the Latrobe, Pa., based author of "The Last Baby Boomer: The Story of the Ultimate Ghoul Pool," "Use All The Crayons! The Colorful Guide to Simple Human Happiness," and popular books about two Latrobe neighbors (Fred Rogers & Arnold Palmer). I'll write for anybody who'll pay me. I am a PROSEtitute
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