by Kevin Burton Happy 79th birthday to the personable multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter John Sebastian. Both his music and his personality seem accessible, based on how he comes off in interviews on You Tube. I mean, here’s a rock and roller who plays the auto harp of all things. He said he learned the instrument …
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SI: North Carolina’s NIT Decision Was Lame
by Kevin Burton North Carolina head basketball coach Hubert Davis, hurting after his team coughed up a 16-point lead and the NCAA tournament final to Kansas last April, nevertheless had gracious words for his players. “I can’t be more proud of the group that I just coached this year,” Davis said in a …
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Chip, Chip Hooray! It’s Potato Chip Day
by Kevin Burton Today is National Potato Chip Day, but I didn’t study for the quiz. My excuse, (there is always an excuse) Consumer Reports let me down. In the past the magazine has published consumer preference stories about chips of all kinds. But I found nothing on their website and by googling …
Old Times, Springtime And Baseball Cards
by Kevin Burton Mid-March, this time of year. In the old days, when it wasn’t quite time for baseball, it was time for baseball cards. Growing up at the school for the blind in Ohio in the 70s, with the gloom and chill of February fading, with temperatures perhaps in the high 40s …
Church Attendance Declining In United States
by Kevin Burton Church attendance is down, way down, in the USA, reports the British newspaper The Guardian, citing two main reasons. The worldwide Covid pandemic is the first, understandable reason. For a while there, few people were going anywhere. The second reason is more troubling: Americans are giving up on Christianity. …
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Hey Baseball, Get Off My Lawn!
by Kevin Burton The seasons are changing, calendar and sports calendar; the time is changing (spring forward Saturday night, kids), too much is changing. Any number of poets have rhapsodized about the beginning of spring and all it symbolizes. OK, I’m good with that. But as a sports guy in the man cave, …
A New Take On Taxis And Guide Dogs
If you are blind and use a guide dog for travel, this story is all too familiar to you. This comes from Calgary, Alberta, courtesy CBC News. “A Calgary cab company has fined and temporarily suspended one of its drivers for refusing to give a ride this week to a blind woman …
Raised On Radio: Petty’s “Last DJ” Banned
by Kevin Burton National DJ Day on Jan. 20 sent me rocking down memory lane, recalling a time when deft tuning of a transistor radio could take you to another world. The heyday of radio, as we talk about it now in the past tense, was a whole other American era, an entirely …
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Consider God’s Vast Care, And Stop Worrying
by Kevin Burton My wife Jeannette is a worrier. As I say it, she is “first string, all-conference.” I’ve spent some time chuckling over that. I have spent less time considering how many votes I might get if the all-worrier team was really a thing. Could I merit an honorable mention? I’ve …
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The Abacus Is Still A Low-Tech Wonder
by Kevin Burton Do you remember any of the gifts you received in fourth grade? Do you have any of them still? Are they in working order? I have one. In fourth grade our teachers at the Ohio State School for the Blind sat us down and introduced us to Mrs. Davidow. …
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