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I am the little drummer boy!

I’ve always been a sucker for puppies.

“What kind of idiot would do that?”        One of my coworkers asked this as he huddled with two others at a laptop computer. They were looking at You Tube videos of people encountering dangerous situations as they visited drive-through zoos – with their windows rolled down. I pulled at my collar. “Ahem. I would.” No

By Randy Haglund “Have you ever thought of getting a tattoo?” The question came from a new colleague, one that hadn’t gotten the memo that I was a conservative opinionated old fuddy-duddy that thrived on giving unsolicited advice. “Why? Are you thinking of getting one?” “I’ve been giving it some thought.”  I set down what

By Randy Haglund After 135 miles of pedaling our bicycles up and down long, steep grades in extreme heat, our bikes came to a sudden halt. Three miles short of our destination we came to fresh, deep gravel. Our skinny ten-speed bike tires sunk two inches into the crushed rock and we were forced to

By Randy Haglund Did you ever go through something in your life that seemed bad, but turned out to be good? Fifty-six years ago that happened to me. And it involved a grape Life Saver and a honey bee. I had just finished third grade when my parents sent me off to a one-week summer

It’s been a long time since I got excited about a television program.

By Randy Haglund There are certain dates that you never forget because of a momentous event. November 23, 1963, July 20, 1969[i], September 11, 2001. We all know where we were when…. If you lived in the upper left-hand corner of the country in 1980, the eruption of Mount Saint Helens tops the list because