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Laughter

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

Meteorology Professor: I want you you describe for me, a cumulonimbus cloud. Student: Yes, cirrus.

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Cold

Posted on April 7, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

Glenn Hughes has a way of singing . . . there’s a reason I wanted to meet him this year. I just had no idea that listening to Cold, by his former group, Black Country Communion, would seem so much … Continue reading →

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Locking one’s keys in the car

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

  Is like a lot of things. Unanswered emails, one-sided echoes . . . Non adhesive tape. But it’s always good for ridicule.

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I’m posting a poll. PLEASE make it look like this place is overrun

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

So I was sitting at dinner tonight, after the Easter play, and I started listening to our waiter reference his Zodiac sign in some kind of context. “I’m going to wrIte about that subject,” I said.  Everyone sitting there knew … Continue reading →

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Update on my “fireside chats with successful people” idea.

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

   I Actually don’t intend to call it that–I mean why would I want to dump Franklin D. Out of his originality chair?  I unexpectedly got my first hit the other day–an email from an author whose work I am … Continue reading →

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In defense of cockiness 

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

In one of the most memorable scenes from Star Wars, intergalactic pirate and semi-affable roustabout, Han Solo, is running on the fumes of gravitas, testosterone, and sheer, cinematic intensity, navigating the Millennium Falcon through the Hoth Asteroid Belt.  Attempting to evade the Imperial … Continue reading →

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And another Easter

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

  Has come.  Kid delivered her lines like a champ.

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Last Easter

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

Hardly visible here, the few weeks beard growth I had for the sake of an Easter play a few hours later than this. Since I was playing John, and had a pinnacle scene in which I was emoting about the … Continue reading →

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Mark Twain on Calvary

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

“When one enters the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Sepulchre itself is the first thing he desires to see, and really is almost the first thing he does see. The next thing he has a strong yearning to see … Continue reading →

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The Death of Aslan (from The Lion The Witch, and the Wardrobe, by CS Lewis)

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

   A great crowd of people were standing all round the Stone Table and though the moon was shining many of them carried torches which burned with evil-looking red flames and black smoke. But such people! Ogres with monstrous teeth, and wolves, … Continue reading →

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