by Kevin Burton You’ve been there I’m sure, where I was Sunday. I called it “crawl out of it” day. Perhaps you can think of a better term. The idea is part getting back into a normal routine and part creating a better routine. I felt as if I hadn’t quite recovered …
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Home Decluttering Means No To Garage Sales
by Kevin Burton Just two hours on a recent Tuesday greatly enhanced how we feel about our house, and all we did was open the front door. Electricians came and executed six of the seven small projects we had scheduled. The seventh is much more involved than we thought because of the way …
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A Virus Antidote Of Sorts In A Little Book
by Kevin Burton The house is more than a little cluttered just now. We’re in the mode of getting stuff out the door. But I found a keeper Wednesday. My wife Jeannette put it in the maybe box that I wrote about last month (“The Maybe Box Keeps The Peace At Home,” April …
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The Burtons Make Room For Two
by Kevin Burton Four mouths to feed on a Sunday morning. Four heartbeats on the second floor. It’s the morning after the big move and our two new cats seem to be at home already. Yes, two new cats. Making their Page 7 debut today are Ronnie and Gabbie. That Ronnie is …
Updates: Page 7’s Mexican Debut
by Kevin Burton Within my general and ongoing shameless plea for readership, I got specific two months ago. On the occasion of Mexican Independence Day I lamented that nobody in Mexico had ever read Page 7 (“Happy Birthday Mexico, Please Read This,” Sept. 15). That hurts, because I used to live in Mexico. …
Of Lost Tiles, NFL Blues And Bird Wars
by Kevin Burton Great jumpin’ Jehoshaphat I am jazzed! Joyous, jubilant even! This post is dedicated to providing updates on some of the stories I’ve told previously on Page 7. This first update is a happy one on a very recent post. I mentioned that I lost the letter J tile …