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by Kevin Burton “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” That quote isn’t original with me and it’s not original from Mark Twain either, according to some sources. The quote actually came from Twain’s friend Charles Dudley Warner, according to quoteinvestigator.com and brainyquote.com. Never knew that. …
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by Kevin Burton Residents of one Alaska neighborhood in my newspaper’s coverage area sought to correct a flooding problem by putting rocks in a river. Riprap, they called it, which is, as I would learn, “a foundation or sustaining wall of stones or chunks of concrete thrown together without order.” From that …
by Kevin Burton Thirty-six little hours before we were to set sail for Memphis, my wife Jeannette checked the weather. And we never set sail for Memphis. The National Weather Service had issued a flood warning covering Memphis at exactly the same time we had planned to hit town. That sort of …
by Kevin Burton Who doesn’t like to get a compliment every now and then? Of course that’s not a real question – we all do! So I say with near certainty, this is your lucky day. It’s World Compliment Day! No, not National, but World Compliment Day. This is for people all …
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