by Kevin Burton In Mexico, when I was there, they called it “buen camino.” In English that means good road, or good path. It’s what you talk about when things are going well. “Tu vas por buen camino,” roughly translated means you’ve got it going on. Singer Jerry Reed might translate …
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A 1972 One-Hit, One-Rhyme Wonder
by Kevin Burton Because mine is a songwriter’s household we have “what rhymes with’ as one of our buzzwords. Buzzphrases I guess that should be. Example: My granddaughter Willow is spoiled. So it’s “Oh my goodness can’t believe how spoiled she is…what rhymes with spoiled?” “Coiled, boiled, foiled..” and so on. Got …
The Bible Has Plenty To Say About Money
by Kevin Burton Where is your treasure this morning? Happy Sunday and welcome back to class! Let’s not dawdle, as they say, time is money. In our Earthly School for the Spiritually Blind (ESSB) we start the second semester today. We started this school because spiritual blindness is the worst, most dangerous …
Make My Burger Plain Or Don’t Make It
by Kevin Burton Maybe you call it “the works” I call it the worst. I’m talking about the slimy toppings people put on their burgers. I mention burgers to follow up on my National Cheeseburger Day post (“White Castle, The Little Burger That Could,” Sept. 24). But you can extend this to other …
White Castle: The Little Burger That Could
by Kevin Burton Once again, White Castle burgers hit the spot! I found out last Friday that the next day, Saturday the 18th was National Cheeseburger Day. Too late though. I already had my blogs planned for the weekend. What to do? I thought it over carefully and came to conclusion …
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Important Research On Cows Peeing
by Kevin Burton Did you know cows can be potty trained? It’s not April first, please keep reading. This I would have never believed had I not heard it from the BBC. And I would have never read this had I not signed up for their newsletter. By all means kids, …
More Rafferty, More ABBA Coming
by Kevin Burton Here’s great news about even more new Gerry Rafferty music. Rafferty’s daughter Martha did an interview Aug. 31 on BBC Scotland. Twice she told host Roddy Hart that there was other unfinished music she hoped would come out “later.” The Scottish singer/songwriter was working on several new songs just …
Gifts From God That Keep On Giving
by Kevin Burton In the old days at the school for the blind in Ohio, semester break meant Christmas, time off, and gifts. Regular Page 7 readers know I am legally blind and have had longtime hobbies and vocations in the blindness field. So I know a thing or two about blindness. …
A Little Good News Is Good For The Heart
by Kevin Burton And all my floors do is squeak. Check this out: Researchers in Switzerland are developing floors that use your footfalls to generate energy. They have improved their “nanogenerator” with the use of a silicone coating and embedded nanocrystals to produce “a device that was 80 times more efficient, enough …
NFL Week: A Fantasy Win, A Bengals Win
by Kevin Burton It’s Sunday and the now-hated Cleveland Browns are about to increase their lead over Kansas City. They call a running play and there is a bit of a scrum near the goal line. My three-word thought: “get in there!” Why would I do a thing like that, root for …
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