Randy Elrod's Blog, page 39

A Few of My Favorite Things Alphabetically…Musicians, Artists, Authors, Food, and Drink After 60 Years of Life

A—Allmans, Amarone, Ambrose, Asparagus B—Bakewell, Blue Cheese, Berry, Bolognese, Bradbury, Buechner C—Cabernet, Cahill, Campbell, Clapton, Chicago, Csikszentmihalyi, Caviar, Cognac D—Decemberists,...

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A Year at Kalien (March)

Estimated reading time: 16 minutes, 22 seconds. The chill, frost, and precipitation have not abated. Even the locals are saying this is the worst winter ever.…

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Turning 60: A Letter to my Thirty Year Self

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes, 47 seconds. Dear me, Hey there 30! It’s 60. Still alive and kicking, as you can see. You spent the two…

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Would My Thirty-Year-Old Self Know Me Now At Sixty?

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes. If youth is a curable disease, I must be getting healthy. A few days ago I looked at myself in the…

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Seven Powerful Questions For A Better Life

Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 13 seconds.  Researchers say we have over 50,000 thoughts per day, and over half of them are negative. If we instead…

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Where Have All The Readers Gone?

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes, 27 seconds. Knowledge is power. Francis Bacon made this powerful statement in his Meditationes Sacrae (1597). If this statement is true,…

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A Year at Kalien (February)

Estimated reading time: 15 minutes, 59 seconds. All this month we sang new lyrics to The Arky Arky Song that we learned in Sunday School as…

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My Girls

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes, 27 seconds. Little girls wear pastel cotton dresses made by Feltman Brothers that flare out to show their funny little knees,…

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Porn Stars, Preachers & The President (A Candid Tribute on President’s Day)

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes, 20 seconds. The evangelicals know that Trump has been whoring around for years, but his speeches at prayer breakfasts, his judicial…

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A Year at Kalien (January)

Estimated reading time: 14 minutes, 33 seconds. Many people long for a farm in the country someday, but with only my wife and a small dog…

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