Listen To Your Heart

Listen To Your Heart

“Mister Moore, I have bad news. You’ve had a heart attack.”

This was not going to be a typical Wednesday.

I stared at the ER physician from my ambulance gurney and tried to process what my wife, boss and I had just heard.

“How bad was it?” I asked.

“Significant,” he responded.

At the ripe old age of 52, I was the newest member of the coronary club.

For almost two days, I’d had the classic symptoms; significant chest pressure, pain radiating down my left arm ...

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Ice Cream You Scream

Ice Cream You Scream

Ice cream is the perfect dessert.

After years of trying lots of different sweets, and teetering on the brink of numerous diabetic comas, I have come to the conclusion that ice cream is, in fact, the perfect dessert.

I have long argued that pie is better than cake, and I stand by that argument. However, choosing an overall best in the sweets category is easy. It’s ice cream.

Ice cream is far above other desserts in its diversity, taste, texture, and its consistency ...

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Home Cooking

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Garage Sailing

Garage Sailing

I love garage sales.

There are some habits that you pick up from family and some that you don’t. Going to garage sales is one that I picked up.

As a kid, my family went to garage sales and estate sales almost every weekend. Part of the reason for this, I suspect, was that my grandfather was a blacksmith and went to Canton Texas Trade Days each month to buy many of the shop items he needed for resale.

It was around 1968 ...

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70s Music Is More Than A Feeling

70s Music Is More Than A Feeling

Kids nowadays may have cooler toys, but my generation had the best bands.

The 1970s produced some of the best music this country has ever seen. The bands that carried myself and other teens through that great decade are still as solid sounding in an mp3 file now as they were from an LP then.

The Beatles broke up in 1970, but the influence they had on their musical descendants lasted at least 10 great years. My love of rock music began ...

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Wagon My Tale

Wagon My Tale

Vacations are not for the faint of heart.

Anyone who has ever taken children on a trip across country in an automobile knows exactly what I’m talking about.

Planes have certainly helped when it comes to travel, but it wasn’t always so easy.

Before air travel was common for the masses, when the school year would end American families would cram as much luggage and as many people as possible into a station wagon and head out on that summer’s adventure.

As screaming kids ...

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Sugar, Sugar or Honey, Honey?

Sugar, Sugar or Honey, Honey?

There are many things that separate Northerners from Southerners, but the way we drink our tea has to rank near the top of the list of differences.

If you were born below the Mason Dixon line, it is assumed that you drink sugar in your tea. Lots of sugar. And, for the most part, your tea is iced tea, not hot tea. Some folks who drink hot tea in the south will put honey in it, but not sugar.

Most Northerners I’ve ...

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One-Ply Toilet Paper and Other Unexplained Phenomena

One-Ply Toilet Paper and Other Unexplained Phenomena

Life is full of unanswered questions.

It seems that there are just some things that we’ll never understand.

I’m not referring to ‘What is the meaning of life?’ or ‘Is there life on other planets?’.

I’m referring to things such as single-ply toilet paper.

For the love of all that’s holy, why was this product invented? Better yet, why do people buy it? When I mistakenly come home with a 12-pack of single-ply toilet paper, I look up and ask karma what it was ...

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What Makes Your Van Gogh?

What Makes Your Van Gogh?

I know art when I see it.

Recently, pranksters planted a $10 Ikea print in a Netherlands Museum and told visitors it was made by a Swedish artist named Ike Andrews. Note the first four letters of Mr. Andrews’ name.

Patrons were asked what they thought it was worth. Estimates ranged from 1,000 Euros to 2.5 million Euros.

I’ve heard of Euros, but I never bothered to learn how much one is worth since it would have to equate to American dollars to ...

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With A Toy Surprise Inside

With A Toy Surprise Inside

I’d buy more products if they still put prizes in the box.

I used to tell my mom that I didn’t want a specific breakfast cereal just because of the type of prize inside the box, but that wasn’t being completely honest. She said that I was making the purchase about me and not about the cereal.

I can vividly remember walking down the cereal aisle and perusing each box of Froot Loops, Lucky Charms, Cap’n Crunch and Frosted Flakes to see ...

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Beer

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Watch This

Watch This

“There’s a sucker born every minute.” – PT Barnum

I’m continuously amazed at what people will buy.

The new Apple Watch made its debut this week. Prices range from $349 to over $10,000. Yes, you heard me correctly, $10,000. The $10K model is made of gold and only sold in fancy stores in Paris and New York. At least for now. I guess they won’t hit Wal Mart, Dollar General, and other places I shop until later.

According to Apple’s website, “In conjunction ...

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