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Chuck Sears - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
I grew up up in Clinton, IL, a small farming community located in central Illinois. My memories of Clinton date to the later part of the 60’s through 1979. With most businesses being locally owned and operated, people did business with people. We had our corner drug store complete with soda fountain, clothing stores, Ben Franklin, two banks, record shop, theater, coffee shop, tavern, and more, all with-in a ten to fifteen minute walk ... [More]
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- Halloween - Busting Pumpkins
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] With Halloween approaching, I find myself reminiscing about the pleasant late October evenings of my youth in Clinton, Illinois during the early 70's. Football season, Homecoming, and the Apple & Pork festival, wrapped around Harvest Time and ending with Halloween, was always a favorite time of year. The groups of guys that I "ran with" were good guys in that all had respected their parents and elders and in turn earned their respect. There was ... one Halloween, when we became possessed by the mischievous nature of young teens ...
- Simple Math For Getting Started
[Finance:Personal-Finance] As my children begin paying their own bills, I thought I would document some Simple Math as a reference for them. I have tried the "family meeting" thing, usually after dinner, and having educated thousands, the looks on my children's faces told me that they thought I was on drugs or from another planet. The bottom line - they are a SMS/text reading generation - so here it is in writing...
- It's 4:00 AM
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] To my children: as you find your way to your future profession, you will work many jobs that you may not be crazy about, but trust me, you will learn something from each. Remember ...
- Glamour Drugs?
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] Before you google or search "Glamour Drugs", the following is my definition for its use here. Glamour Drug: beautiful ads for drugs we see online, on television, and in print. Wow, I wouldn't mind getting some of them; most are very enticing which makes for good ad copy.
- It's Only My Mother
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] My wife called around noon today, wondering when my 17-year-old son was going to show up at work (she is his boss). Her tone and what seemed to be a few hundred words (reminded me of when adults talked in any Charlie Brown episode) meant she was angry. Our son was taking advantage ...
- Black Monday
[Business:Sales] Are most of your days feeling like "Black Monday"? No, not the Dublin massacre of 1209 "Black Monday", but rather, the October 19, 1987, "Black Monday", when stock markets around the world crashed. After the markets crashed, top news could be found interviewing some of the most brilliant economic minds of the time trying to answer the question as to why the markets fell.
- Obama, Go Shopping!
[News-and-Society:Pure-Opinion] Barack Obama during a recent debate berated President Bush for telling Americans, after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, "to go out and shop". I knew immediately why Bush said that, I know that a majority of "working people" understand why he said that.
- Shoot Me!
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] Years ago I witnessed the delivery of one, which would become many, "Show Stopping" phases ever to be spoken in a Quick Lube, or any other business for that matter. The shop was busy and the "music" from vacuums, oil guns, general shop talk and the like, all playing in harmony, filled the air while multiple vehicles were being serviced.
- Driving - A New Baby and Idiots
[Automotive] This morning my youngest child, that has been driving a little over a year, took his first (that I know of) short trip in his car - by himself. While the trip is only an hour away, it may as well be five hours away. I remember the first time my other two children embarked on their first "trips", I was terrified, like today.
- Drive-Thru Speaker Thing
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Humor] I realize people are doing the best they can with what they have to work with. However, when will technology at the fast food drive-thru allow for at least an invisible experience. Today, Anger Management Clinics should be buying ad space on the drive-thru speaker thing. Reality television? "The Speaker Thing" on television ...
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