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“What in tarnation are you up to?” This question came up frequently when I was a child. For some reason, Mom felt the need to question my actions and scrutinize the purity of my motives. Ideas were sent hurtling across the vast expanse of my young mind at the speed of a sloth wading through molasses. So many in fact, that I had to plug my ears to keep them from spilling out onto my shoulders—especially when Mom used that dreaded word, “tarnation.”
Flash forward fifty years. ~ My wife revises Mom’s line of questioning to ask, “What in tarnation are you writing about now?”
The repetition of this word brings me to the conclusion that there must be nation called Tar (located somewhere between my ears) responsible for the generation of brilliant ideas. Thoughts passing through this country more than once are subject to a process called reintarnation—a form…
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‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
The international outcry on hearing the news of Mattis’ resignation was loud and clear – basically amounting to fear that there is no longer a sane mind in the Trump administration and how can the U.S. remain a trusted ally. There were many criticisms of Trump (well-deserved) from world leaders as well as from republicans in Congress.
Trump was apparently offended by the criticism and, as is his modus operandi, sought revenge by rejecting General Mattis’ offer…
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