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 …
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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 …
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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. …
Hey Yahoo, Ya-hooey, Out Of My Face!
by Kevin Burton I’ve got Travis Kelce on my fantasy team. Such a sentence I never thought I would utter. But there you have it. Tuesday night was draft night for the USA Legends fantasy football league. The Legends were/are a new beep baseball team made up of older players from all …
No Need For Fake Commutes At My House
by Kevin Burton Working from home is one of the virus-era changes that I think is here to stay. It continues to be a necessity for many and it just makes a lot of sense for employers and employees alike. But some people are having trouble with one aspect of home …
Racial Bias In Ohio Court Sentencing
by Kevin Burton An Ohio court sentenced a black woman to prison last week just a day after giving a white woman probation for essentially the same white-collar crime. This was reported by Michael Harriot of Yahoo News, following up on a story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Neither judge in the …
Prayer Needed For Tough Family Decisions
by Kevin Burton I went literary on you last Friday. Hope that was OK. I wrote about my mother moving to an assisted living facility and the parallels for that move and my move to the Ohio State School for the Blind as a fourth grader in 1972 (“Love, Tears And Doing The …
More Famous People I Have Met
by Kevin Burton Does your bucket list include going to all 50 American states? If so, do you count airport states? North Carolina is an airport state for me. That means I was in an airplane that landed there. I either changed planes or just sat in the plane waiting for the second …
Young’s “Ohio” Is Ultimate Protest Song
by Kevin Burton At Kent State University they say May 4 the way all Americans say Sept. 11, the date being the only reminder needed of an unspeakable tragedy May 4 was the day in 1970 when Ohio National Guardsmen shot 13 Kent State students during a protest of the American invasion of …
The Sights, Sounds And Smells Of Storms
by Kevin Burton In the three plus years I lived in the Pacific Northwest I can only recall one honest-to-God thunderstorm. Some co-workers were talking about it in my carpool going to work. I said “Yeah that was excellent!” They thought that was quaint I guess because they retold the story a …
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