by Kevin Burton The best jokes around our house don’t start with “knock knock” or “a guy walks into a bar.” They start with “what do you want for..” On our calendar we have spaced birthdays, Christmas, and our anniversary so that at all times there is some kind of gifting occasion on …
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Wife To The Rescue of Alexa And Me
by Kevin Burton My songwriting is punctuated by bursts of creativity, drive and joy but it swims in a vast ocean of self-doubt. If confidence were gun powder, I couldn’t blow up an apple. My confidence is like that sorry little piece of fat they call pork, in a huge can of beans, …
Board Game Beatdown South Dakota Style
by Kevin Burton My wife and I loved our South Dakota-Nebraska vacation last fall. We really didn’t want to come home. On the way home I kept a Nebraska station on the car radio well past the point where we could actually hear it well enough to recognize a song. “Hey, if …
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 …
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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A Little Good News Goes A Long Way
by Kevin Burton Have you had enough of the shouters and the doubters, the doom and the gloom? How about a little good news? The Apostle Paul encouraged people to focus on things that are true, honest, just and pure. “If there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on …
Culinary Advice From The Hospital?
by Kevin Burton Somewhere between the art of science and the science of art, I dropped the ball and missed a moment. The girls were up from Oklahoma between Christmas and New Years Eve. The girls are our now-ten-year-old granddaughter on my wife’s side and her five-year-old step sister by living arrangement, not …
Don’t Miss The Moments Life Brings You
by Kevin Burton Somewhere between the art of science and the science of art, I dropped the ball and missed a moment. The girls were up from Oklahoma between Christmas and New Years Eve. The girls are our now-ten-year-old granddaughter on my wife’s side and her five-year-old step sister by living arrangement, not …
Sweet Dreams And Super Bowl Victory For KC
by Kevin Burton My wife Jeannette got the news late: the Kansas City Chiefs are Super Bowl champions! She got the news late because she left the game in the second quarter and headed to bed. Her work starts very early and so bedtime comes early too, Super Bowl or not. She …
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Love Is Growing New And She’s Still The One
by Kevin Burton Found a lyric last week that is so cool, I want to use it to tell my happy Valentine’s Day story. This is what happens when my usual Tuneful Tuesday post coincides with Valentine’s Day. The song “Still The One” went to number five for Orleans in 1976. It’s …
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