Old-school news, just in time
by Kevin Burton The Dictionary Scoop website illustrated its list of old technologies with a picture of a cassette tape, but then didn’t see fit to include cassettes in its discussion. There’s an oldie but a goodie, right? Well I just bought some cassettes! I have a lot of music on cassette …
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by Kevin Burton Every once in a while I have camped out on the website of the Good News Network as I am doing today, to cheer up Page 7 readers and myself alike. Maybe I should visit more often. God bless whoever came up with this idea. You can get any …
by Kevin Burton Few sights in life are as breathtaking and heartwarming as a woman in her wedding dress. Seems that is true even when the woman is not yet a bride. And it’s especially true, when a loving father is going blind. Reporter Hollie Carr from the Dorset Echo, in England, …
by Kevin Burton So I’ve had this material for a while. My friend Tracy sent it to me. Jusuuuut haven’t gotten around to posting it yet. You know, busy, busy, busy. It arrived under the headline “procrastinator’s creed.” Did you know that if you rearrange the letters in “procrastinator” you get …
by Kevin Burton Our rule about Christmas music is none before Dec. 1. For Christmas decorations, anything goes as long as it’s after Thanksgiving. We should perhaps clean up that Christmas rulebook inconsistency. Also, most years we buy a new Christmas ornament for the tree. We have enough ornaments for at least …
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by Kevin Burton When there is a Dave Barry book on your front porch, you’re having a good day. Every writerly thing in me, now wants to write, “nothing else matters.” But we both know that isn’t entirely true. Nothing else? Tell you what though Sugarbear, nothing else matters for the next …
by Kevin Burton Pet rocks I remember. Mood rings, yep. Little sawed-off Gremlin cars. Yeah, I remember those. I was part of the 70s. I was on the scene baby! I watched the Jackson 5 cartoon. Didn’t dance much but I sang a lot of disco. I remember the bicentennial and staying up …
by Dictionary Scoop The moon has been a source of inspiration for poems, stories, and songs since ancestral times, its image recurring in our language as a symbol of beauty, grandeur, and ambition. Today we explore some well-known and some more obscure idioms. 1-Once in a Blue Moon We all know that this phrase …
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by Dictionary Scoop The 60s were truly a magical time, weren’t they? If there’s one word that truly defined this decade, it would be the word “freedom”: After all, the 60s were defined by their revolutionary new takes on music, art, and society in general. In fact, this era was so groundbreaking that …
by Kevin Burton The omnivore and the acrobat inhabit the same spaces, but not the same mind. Their motivations differ. Their capabilities and culpabilities are diverse. Sometimes I’d like to see these felonious felines get their tails in jail. My wife Jeannette agrees. Who knocked over the framed beep baseball picture that …
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