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It started with Ryan way back in 2006. Then it Cassies turn in 2007 when Aidan was born. Last week it was Camilla, and this week, it is Ariel, my youngest(14)which is where she got the nickname, "Little".
As an eighth grader atFruitvale, she is in the Colorguard and Saturday was their...
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If I looked back, would I see the past
Or just the present as a jumbled mess
Are the lessons of those days gone by
As clear as I profess them to be to others
Or are they lost in the rubble of the wreckage of my life
Pinned beneath the beams that I knocked down
In my quest for self...
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I just read the article on the four people, one of whom was an infant, that were killed in an accident on highway 46 over the weekend. One car passing big rigs hit another head on. Four dead in an instant, who knows how many lives changed forever. Why?
Because someone was in a hurry, that's why....
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When my 16 year old daughter, Camilla, was born, I began calling her my "Punkin Pie". That became "Pie" after a time, and is still my pet name for her. Last year, as a sophomore at Centennial, she began have some real difficulties with school. Not the work, but the...
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Just so everyone knows..well, anyone who cares, anyway(and I don't care who that may or may not be). I didn't go back and read any of the comments after my last comment on my last post. I just don't care anymore. I'm tired of people who think they have a clue about my family dynamic. I'm tired of...
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Everytime I talk about my grandson, Ryan, everytime I am watching a game in a public place and say "That's my grandson", people look at me like I have two heads, and I find myself explaining the technical aspect of our kinship.
Ryan is my ex-wife's grandson. She is a little older...
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Here I sit in a hotel(not a motel either!)room in Madera, Ca. The Madera Valley Inn. Nice place. Big rooms, nice beds, good restaurant downstairs, centrally located(what isn't in Madera!), friendly and helpful staff(they always put me on the west side of the building so I don't have to listen to...
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I know who and what I am and I am OK with it. I don't care what anyone else thinks, who it offends or who it irritates. I refuse to compromise myself to asuage the feelings of another, no matter who that person is, and I refuse to pretend to be someone or something I am not just to be accepted by...
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I'm not a man who takes true friends for granted. If you are my friend, I have your back, and I am sure you have mine. If that's not the kind of person you are, we will probably never be anything more than acquaintances. I'm not talking about fighting for me, because two of my closest friends...
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A good day to live
I will take a break from my usual rants and all the heavy issues that we face in our state, nation, and species, and talk about something that has touched my life. As many of you know, my son was in a near drowning. Can you believe it, in my line of work I have come across...
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Grapes from Chile? Apple Juice from China? Olive Oil from Sicily? What ever happened to us growing the food we eat right here in America? Did we forget how to do it? No, we didn't, we just gave up trying because it's too big a hassle, and for a few reasons, not the least of which are government...
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YouTube - Ricky Carmichael Retirement Tribute
Over the years I have been in more than a few discussions and arguments about how tough my beloved sport of Motocross is. Studies have shown professional outdoor motocross racers to have body mass indexes second only to professional...
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As the school year comes to a close, I want to say "thank you" to all of the Centennial High School Cheerleaders (varsity, JV, and frosh/soph). For those who don't know, I'm a Centennial alum who continues to go to Centennial's games and lead cheers for the cheerleaders and the...
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I bought my Harley in 2002, the year of the shootings at the River Run in Laughlin, Nv. I wasn't there, and after hearing the news and the subsequent issues with having more cops than bikers, decided that it wasn't worth it, so I never made it there. Well, some of the folks we run around with...
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I am sick of being told I am intolerant. I am not. Disagreeing or having a different belief system than another person or people does not make me intolerant and it does not make me a hater.
The recent events concerning the Miss USA pageant are proof positive that I, and people...
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“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
William Blake
I treasure Monday mornings.
This morning I am practicing what I teach.
There are tree trimmers right outside my window. Some
of them have their chainsaws hacking away at my
beloved mulberry. Others are...
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OK..If you like relly good poetry, you should probably go somewhere else!..LOL I do enjoy sharing my work..well, most of it, anyway, so once in awhile, I'll post a piece and see what folks think.
I dont know why these are line spaced this way when I paste, but oh well!
An uneasy feeling...
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After the recent meltdown on one of my posts, I got to thinking about my writing. My creative writing, that is, and realized I hadn't written any poetry in quite some time. I guess my creativity has been poured into my guitar the last couple of years. Well, when it's there at all, and sometimes...
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I love my kids and will allow them to become involved in any productive activity they wish. I will run them around, spend some coin and see where things go. What I will not do is spend huge amounts of time and money on activities that serve no other purpose that fending off their boredom or fill...
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Well, it seems that Nancy will indeed be joining us at future meet n greets without having to use sign language or incomprehensible grunts, groans and squeals.
Her surgery was, at least partially successful. She can hear agian, but not as well as before. We left the hospital and, at her request,...
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Sometimes I really get fed up with my job. Not so much what I do, but I have to deal with as a boss and a co-worker. It never ceases to amaze me how immature, narrowminded and selfish grown men can be. My oldest subordinate is over sixty, my youngest is two months older than me at forty-nine....
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The Kern High School District needs to leave sports alone. There will be many angry parents and fans (I'm a Centennial fan myself) if sports are cut thanks to Sacramento's problems. It's time we hold our legislature accountable for this, not the student athletes. Many other...
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SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2009
Scenario 1:
Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack.
1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks...
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Paul Harvey says:
This is the United States of America , a country founded on Christian
principles.
One or two will tell thousands what they can and cannot do. I don't
think a short prayer at a football game is going to shake the world's
foundations.
Christians are just sick...
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Being employed by the same company for thirty years has many benefits, one of which is five weeks vacation a year. Toward the end of 2008 I realized I still had seven days of vacation left. By interspersing them with paid holidays and my two personal days for 2009, I was able to have eighteen...
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I was lying around the other day thinking about my life and what has made it special to me. The good, the bad and the ugly. I started thinking about some of the surveys I do online sometimes and how the question "What was the best year of your life" pops up in some of them. I don't have...
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It might seem kind of presumptuous that I could narrow down & decide on the absolute best thing about Bakersfield, but I've been here almost a year and a half now, so I consider myself somewhat of an expert.
We moved from Minneapolis to Bakersfield in September 2007 for my...
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"I hit the city and I lost my band. I watched the needle take another man, gone, gone, the damage done"...Neil Young: The Needle and the Damage Done.
EKL...That's what we all called Edward Keith Lamm, my old friend. From 1984 through 1990 we were running and gunning together. Never far...
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such a burning love
ensures me a wonderful life
which offers constant joy
without a care
with heartfelt warmth
we’re safe and secure
knowing we can be secure
knowing it’s not forbidden love
feeling love’s warmth
gives my life
without a care
so filled with joy...
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I really haven't felt very political lately. I know who I am voting for and nothing I read here or see in the news is going to change my mind. I know why I am voting for my candidate and why I am not voting for the other guy. I know how I am voting on what measures and why and I am not confused...
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An article I read recently spoke of how so many people's "Golden Years" are really not so golden. It talked about the problems facing retiring and aging Americans such as finances and illnesses afflicting many people as they age. Arthritis, Alzheimers, strokes, etc. and pointing out...
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2008 has been a terrible year for me. I can't remember a year when so many things have gone so wrong in so many areas. Financially, emotionall, physically, work, people; it really has been a bad year and there is still a good chunk of it left!
In January I had enough in savings to get me by,...
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As of yesterday, there is a new 4-way stop sign at (of all intersections) Merle Haggard Dr and Saco Rd/Quinn Rd/Northbound 99 off-ramp. I understand there is construction here (bridge project) and that there's been some accidents there, but, c'mon, the road department thinks...
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I am a people watcher. Wherever I go I spend a great deal of time just looking around seeing what people are doing, how they are dressed, what little moves they make and tells they may have. I can spot certain types of people a mile away and very accurately predict their behavior. I am wrong once...
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In the summer of 1971, when I was eleven, I was working for a guy named Jimi Monji cleaning horse stalls. It was my first job and I made $1.00 an hour. One day as I pushed the loaded wheelbarrow up a 2x12 plank that led to the "Big Pile" to dump my load, the plank flipped over and one...
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Every so often, a Your Words article comes in from a reader on Bakersfield.com that brings tears to my eyes. Bree Alvarez has submitted this touching article about saying goodbye to one friend while welcoming another friend's baby into the world in the same week.
Bree's friend Shari died in a...
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August 3rd marked the death of my PC. Well, it may not be dead, but it seems to be in a chronic vegetative state! It won't do anything at all, and at this time, I haven't the money to mess with it. What, with my twso youngest daughters birthdays next week as well as back to school expenses on top...
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So, according to this Associated Press story, "The United States and Iraq have agreed to seek 'a general time horizon' for deeper reductions in American combat troops in Iraq."
As an editor, I am always amused by euphemisms and bureaucracy speak. So I'm laughing over this term...
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A lovelorn Yorkshireman who put his life up for auction on the Internet said Tuesday "idiots" had made fake bids which pushed up the price of his home, job and lifestyle to unrealistic levels.
Wait. Who's the idiot?
Read the whole ridiculous story here.
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I had heard his schtick a number of times but never really understood all George Carlin's musings. I had watched countless HBO specials but never read any of his books.
That was until Christmas of 2005. My brother gave me "America: The Book" by Jon...
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I never really noticed it that awful much when I was growing up. I mean, I knew it was there, but it had nothing to do with me or my life..Yet. I was more interested in the vacant lot across Green Street where we would gather as teens and hang out, planning our escapades for the evening. Not...
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How many of you are tired of all the litter that lines our streets? I know I am. I don't like seeing all the trash just piled up everywhere, where it is not supposed to be. I'm talking about littering and dumping. Both of these practices are illegal, but still happen way...
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so as i skipped through my ipod to find some crossfade i started to notice how all my years of loving music has created a vast universe of listening variety. it literally went from, bob marley to breaking benjamin from jimi hendrix to john legend and so on. whenever people i don't...
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"Hurry here, hustlin' there. No one's got the time to spare.
Money's tight, nothin's free. Won't somebody come and rescue me"?
from "Crossfire" by Stevie Ray Vaughn.
"I just don't have the time"...I have noticed myself saying that less and less lately. I have...
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Here's a fun little topic. What are your favorite TV shows of all time? My favorites are listed below in no particular order. Which shows do you not like?
1. 7th Heaven (which aired on the WB-now CW-until its finale last year. Too bad I missed the final season...
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Saturday morning I woke up fairly early (can't remember exactly what time). It was April 19, my 25th birthday. After taking a shower, it was time to eat breakfast in the hotel lobby. Having learned how expensive food was at the track, I ate literally until I was...
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Working ten to fourteen days out of town for most of the last month(and still having to drive home)for ten to twelve hours has certainly put my time in a major bind not to mention being a single parent. Not that I mind that aspect of my life, but those in my position know what I mean(and if...
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Hello everyone!
LOL, I bet that title will get some responses, but what I mean by virgin blogger is that this is my first time ever in my entire life posting a blog. So my curiosity got to me and now here I am!
My life right now is actually going really well. If you have...
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I was just wondering, being relatively new here in B'field and all, if there is anyone or any organization that takes the time to acknowledge MOTHER'S who might not have family to be with them or send them anything for Mother's day? Among the most obvious reasons I ask is that last year,...
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ASA Celebrates 75th Anniversary
The Amateur Softball Association, the national governing body for softball in the U.S., is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2008. Founded in 1933, the ASA has become one of...
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