What Would It Take To Make You Move?

by Kevin Burton    You say Tulsa isn’t your cup of tea?  Would $10,000 be enough of a sweetener to change your mind?      Some cities are paying people cold hard cash and incentives to move there and take jobs working remotely.    It’s a virus-era employment and recruiting trend according to a report by …

Airline To Fire Unvaccinated Workers

by Kevin Burton    Almost 600 workers for United Airlines now face termination for not complying with the company’s Covid 19 vaccination requirement, according to published reports.    “The vast majority of its 67,000 US staff have supplied proof of vaccination, which was required by Monday,” according to a report on the BBC website.    …

Fantasyland: When You’re Hot You’re Hot

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 …

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 …

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.    …