by Kevin Burton Hello Mexico, are you there? Are you listening? Happy birthday! Yes, I know I’m just a shade early. Tomorrow is Independence Day in Mexico. Viva Mexico! You’re 211 years young. Just one question though: what does a respectable, kind-of-bilingual, ex ex-pat blogger have to do to get …
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A Moment To Savor With Gerry Rafferty
by Kevin Burton The hit sniffers at United Artists wanted the title track from Gerry Rafferty’s 1978 smash album “City To City” to be the first song released as a single. Rafferty knew better, successfully spoke up for the sonic masterpiece “Baker Street” as the first single and the rest is history. …
A More Important Kind Of Wrestling
by Kevin Burton The end of classes for the day at our Earthly School for the Spiritually Blind does not end all activities. For an after-school extra-curricular activity we take you to wrestling practice. I was a wrestler in high school. At the time I had little or no comprehension of the …
“Grandpa Kev” Just Doesn’t Sound Right
by Kevin Burton My wife drove like a grandma ever before she was one. I said this to her in person long before I said it to you in print and I assured her it was no putdown. In fact I mean it as the highest of compliments. What does a grandma …
Little Sis Had Her Day, Did It Her Way
by Kevin Burton It was years after the fact when he told the story, but the anger was still there in his voice. Apparently someone in obstetrics at the Minot Air Force Base suggested that my father could, or maybe should, allow my newborn sister Patricia to die. This was before she …
Derby Non-profit Is All About The Cats
by Kevin Burton Look, these are cats. They’re not going to admit it or act like it, but some of them really do need you. Could be their first human contact wasn’t such a good one. It happens. You have a story unique to you, right? So do the kitties. There …
Last Echoes From The Brilliant Rafferty
by Kevin Burton Thanks to his daughter Martha, we have a new studio album from Gerry Rafferty, ten years after his death. Parlophone Records released “Rest In Blue” on Friday. It’s a revamping of the songs he was working on at the time of his death. For dedicated Rafferty fans it’s a …
The Church Has Forgotten God Is Sovereign
by Dane Massey (Dane Massey is the former Pastor of Mulvane Christian Church. He is now in ministry in Houston, Texas.) It has been said that there is nothing wrong with modern Christianity that a good dose of the Sovereignty of God wouldn’t fix. For such a dose, let’s turn to the …
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Hey Yahoo, Ya-hooey, Out Of My Face!
by Kevin Burton I’ve got Travis Kelce on my fantasy team. Such a sentence I never thought I would utter. But there you have it. Tuesday night was draft night for the USA Legends fantasy football league. The Legends were/are a new beep baseball team made up of older players from all …
USA Women Get Silver At Paralympics
by Kevin Burton The USA women’s goalball team will come home with silver medals after a 9-2 loss to Turkey in the Paralympic final in Tokyo this morning. The now two-time defending champion Turkey avenged its only loss of the tournament, a 4-3 loss to the US in the group stage. Asya …
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