Old-school news, just in time
by Kevin Burton Two takeaways from Sunday’s Chiefs-Bengals AFC Championship game, one a smirking aside, the other more lasting. To set up the first one, I remember when the late great John Madden had just left his brilliant career as Oakland Raiders coach and just begun what would prove to be a brilliant …
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by Kevin Burton I’ve got retirement fever now. May it spark in me a desire for discipline. Retirement has been on my mind for a while, but the taste for it was whetted during our recent vacation, spent mostly in Nebraska and South Dakota. We called the trip retirement practice. I would say …
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by Kevin Burton I have a correction today. Got one of my facts wrong. The older of the two cats we got in December is 13, not 11 as I previously reported. Page 7 regrets the error. So does Gabbie for that matter. The confusion came because the lady at the cat …
by Kevin Burton My wife brings me a piece of coffeecake from Starbucks. Great, I say, I’ll eat half of it for breakfast. She knows I love the coffeecake. And at some level, I know, I will not stop inhaling until I have eagerly shaken the crumbs from the bag it came in. …
by Kevin Burton My wife drove like a grandma ever before she was one. I said this to her in person long before I said it to you in print and I assured her it was no putdown. In fact I mean it as the highest of compliments. What does a grandma …
by Kevin Burton I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while now. Had some other things pop up. You know how it is. Procrastination. You see these quotes everywhere, along the lines of “never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.” OK, ha ha. …
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by Kevin Burton Last Friday I wrote about the importance of memorizing scripture. Today I want to pass along some tips for how to go about it. There is no shortage of advice to be found on the net about this. I hope you find at least one or two of these helpful. …
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