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HAIKU 5*7*5* Autumn

The dawn of autumn Brownish leaves on black asphalt Fingers will be numb

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My baseball cards are dying...

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PASSING/MLB: Johnny Jeter

Johnny Jeter passed away on January 16th. of this year. This flew under the radar of the national media and even my brother and sister MLB nerds over at Baseball Fever didn’t find out until July of the passing of Mr. Jeter who passed of undisclosed causes in his native Louisiana where he had attended Grambling University. Baseball was the thread in the fabric of this 12 year-olds summer of…

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HAIKU 5*7*5* Hear a smile

It has been a while Not really unexpected I can hear you smile.

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FOOD: Sweet n Low and other “artificial” sweeteners

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FOOD: Sweet n Low and other "artificial" sweeteners

Sweet!

My current employer has dropped Sweet n Low from its roster of artificial sweetness. To be sure Sweet n Low isn’t exactly “Sweet n Low” as generic Sweet Time offerings are employed in an effort to stem ever rising COGS. When a guest orders tea, and my employer sells precious little coffee, 4 packets of sugar, 4 packs of Sweet n Low, 4 packets of Equal, 4 packs of Splenda and 4 packs of Stevia…

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WORDS OF OTHERS:

“We have to keep the home court disadvantage.” !!! CELTICS!!!

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HAIKU 5*7*5* Spring's curtain is going up...

My eye focuses Spring’s curtain is going up Yellow crocuses

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APRIL's Greatest Hits!

1) Baseball! 2) 53 Fahrenheit at 2 P.M. 3/30/2024 3) Dietary change to spring feeding which features lots of raw spinach. 4) NBA and NHL getting interesting. 5) Rabbits in the East Fens neighborhood of Boston. 6) “April showers bring May flowers…” Well… we have definitely gotten the showers. 7) Women wearing shorts and mini skirts. 8) Mallard ducks bobbing about in the Muddy River. 9)…

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PASSING: Bud Harrelson, January 11, 2024

A fond remembrance.

Derrel McKinley “Bud” Harrelson passed on January 11, 2024 in his home in East Northport, N.Y. of Alzheimer’s disease. Harrelson was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2016 and went public with his malady in 2018. At the time of his passing Harrelson was a partner in the Long Island Ducks North Atlantic Independent League, Islip, Long Island based team team he helped to found in 2000. The link below…

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DEFINITION: Stereotype; steh-ree-oh-tipe

A stereotype is when a teaspoon of truth becomes a mountain of mythology.

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Know more than you need to...

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HAIKU 5*7*5*: AARP

No more ‘woe is me’. Think of the benefits of Me! AARP!

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A sad day whose sadness is exceeded only by its grimness...