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My Uncle Jim passed away last Monday. His wife is my Aunt Bonnie, my mom’s sister. Uncle Jim’s obituary: Vaughn V. Bowman, 82, of Jupiter died Monday, Sept. 8. He was born in Kane, Pa., and lived in Florida since 1957. In 1957, he moved to Florida, where he founded Penn Land Company and over […]

Today my coworkers and I are throwing a surprise “bridal” lunch for a lady in our department who is getting married Saturday. All festivities and funnery aside, the general mood here is somber. Life may go on, but we still remember. I remember where I was, and what I was doing. I remember thinking of […]

A couple things in today’s PostSecret struck me. Party Lines For many years in the circles in which I participated, I mostly kept my political leanings to myself. I always justified it as one’s political views were like his/her religious beliefs — they should be kept private and only shared with whom he/she trusted. Or […]

Someone once said, “A man’s bone and skin can be burned away into powder and ash, but what’s left is without form. Courage, duty and honor have no permanent home.” Those words could not be truer in the case of John (“Johnny”) A. Nichols, Sr. He served our country proudly in the Vietnam war, and […]

In college I roomed with two girls who weren’t from the South. One was Canadian, the other from Michigan. Neither of them really understood the whole “football thing”. I joked with one, telling her that down here we don’t use DNA testing to determine paternity … we just ask the child which team he roots […]

I’m sitting here trying to catch up on my feeds. I saw two entries by two different people, whom I consider very dear, which saddened me. Both had each recently lost a furry loved one. I must have been muttering to myself, because a coworker overhead me and commented on how he couldn’t understand “how […]