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Continue reading →: I’m No Superman
There is always a fear when a popular TV show, movie or even just a character is brought back from “retirement” to make another run at it. Will it live up to its past glory? Will the character(s) be a caricature of themselves? Quite bluntly, will it tarnish the memory…
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Continue reading →: It Takes A Village
In just over a month, my youngest two daughters will graduate from James Madison University, an accomplishment they should be extremely proud of, as are Mrs. Chump and myself. As I tend to do, I am both over-thinking this and getting overly nostalgic. As I look back over the years…
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Continue reading →: Happy Anniversary
Every now and then, whether intentionally or unintentionally, I do something right. For now, we can avoid discussing the frequency of such occurrences and instead, focus on celebrating one of the times when everyone who knows me can not only not deny that I got something right, but also cannot…
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Continue reading →: Willamette Day 2
Welcome back to Willamette, dammit (a little reinforcement of a previously introduced idea – I read somewhere it helps people remember things). When we last left off, Mrs. Chump and I had just returned to our hotel in Willamette, The Dundee Hotel. I’m not going to spend a lot of…
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Continue reading →: It’s Willamette, dammit
“While we are out do you want to . . . . “. Mrs. Chump loves to spring that question on me whenever we are out running errands because she absolutely knows, “No, I do not want to.”. Well, very seldomly at least. If you tell me that we need…
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Continue reading →: Photos
As I continue to advance to higher and higher “experience levels” in this game called life, I am sometimes reminded of past adventures that I had almost completely forgotten about. Some random visual, phrase or even aroma will bring up a distant memory that, until that moment, I had completely…
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Continue reading →: Dare to be Different (Stupid)
At some point in 1983, a young Don Conners walked confidently into a record store and bought his first 45 single. What rock and roll classic or 80’s one-hit-wonder did young Don buy you ask? Bruce? MJ? Rush? Nope – amateurs, all of them! Instead our hero young Don bought…
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Continue reading →: Get-Away Day
Home is where the heart is. That is what “they” say. And for the most part, “they” are right. But it is also where daily monotony sometimes comes to visit from time to time. We all have those times when we get into a bit of a routine rut –…
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Continue reading →: Back to School!
When I first started getting more interested in wine, one of the most frustrating things for me was going into a restaurant and looking at the wine list and, outside of the most famous grapes/regions, not knowing what any of the wines were. To be honest, it was both intimidating…
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