Well, we’ve closed out the books on another year with the baby boomer herd continuing to thin. We have a new president soon taking over and promising to solve all our problems on day one and I’ve got one he could help me with: how to fold up properly a prefolded bedsheet.
Reflecting on 1977 when President Jimmy Carter was elected, I realize that I didn’t follow politics closely in those days.
Mortally wounded in a Christmas Eve duel at Gonza-les, Virginian Reuben Ross survived the Battle of San Jacinto only to die on Christmas Day 1839.
My wife recalls the night of December 31, 1999, as a time of anxiety and trepidation.
Thorston Veblen wrote a book back at the end of the gilded age called “Theory of the Leisure Class,” about those who were wallowing in wealth so great they struggled at finding places to spend it.
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