by Kevin Burton When I was a sort of young beep baseball player, I had a team mate who always talked about heart guards. Beep baseball is baseball for blind players. The ball is slightly bigger than a softball and depending on who made the ball, it can be quite hard. When …
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This Is One Plan I Can Execute For Sure
by Kevin Burton Not today, baby. Nope. Not feelin’ it. Yes the clock is tick-tick-ticking just like on 60 Minutes. Yes, I hear it. The winds of progress are whipping as usual, making the pages of my calendar flutter seductively. “Got to get a move on,” both clock and calendar …
Personal Data Scattered To The Four Winds
by Kevin Burton Yes, of course you’re going to do your due diligence, you’ll do what you can. But is this a lost cause already? I’m talking about the safe keeping of your personal data, personal identifying information. The intimate details of your life. How much of that information do you truly …
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“Growing Down,” A Useful Concept?
by Kevin Burton Working title for my book on aging: “I’m Not Growing Old, I’m Just Growing, and other lies we tell ourselves as we age.” Sigh. I always love waking up and getting a day older. What I don’t love is waking up on my birthday and getting a year older. …
Shelf At Work Takes Me Back In Time
by Kevin Burton A piece of my past was hiding in plain sight in my work space about two feet above my right shoulder. I’m still getting used to the surroundings at my part-time clerical job at a local church. The place is a maze! Thankfully, my job duties don’t take me around …
My Smallish Musical Debut Is Coming
by Kevin Burton Alison Trelfa’s “Winter Warmer,” to be released in the UK Nov. 30, has one element no album has ever had. Me. Let me be clear up front, I won’t exactly be featured on the album, and there is still editing to be done. But I am pretty sure my …
Juneteenth, Facebook “Geniuses” And Trust
by Kevin Burton If you have ever spun an old-school non-digital radio dial tuner, you’ll be at home in this post. Imagine yourself tuning the dial, looking for music to groove on, political thoughts that agree with your own, a game of your favorite team or the weather report. These are thoughts, …
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Reflecting On News As CNN Turns 41
by Kevin Burton CNN first hit the airwaves 41 years ago yesterday. But you wouldn’t be wrong to say it really started in 1991. Any way you slice it, news has never been the same since Ted Turner’s brainchild went live. That’s when changes in the way news is gathered and consumed began. …
I Listen When I Hear The Wake Words
by Kevin Burton Ladies, those Facebook messages about men not listening, pah-LEEZ! Completely ridiculous. C’mon. It amazes me that I would have to tell you something like this. There is nothing wrong with men’s ears, other than maybe excess hair. Men as a whole, listen more or less as well as …