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We know each other pretty well, don't we? I mean...we're tight? Because today I'm going to discuss something pretty personal, and I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable. That's just not my style. Now I'm not really sure any subject can be considered too personal these days with television commercials hyping everything from...well....you know...female monthly stuff to erectile dysfunction pills and gadgets. There's even those toilet paper ads with the cartoon bears and paper stuck to their... Read Full Story
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It's 72 degrees with 66 percent humidity as I write this in Kaneohe Bay on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. In Johnson City, Tennessee, the temperature right now is 63 degrees with 40 percent humidity. While one of those stats is completely normal for any given Groundhog's Day in recent past, the latter is a tad bit unnerving. Before you go flying off the handle ranting and raving about 'normal weather cycles' and 'global warming quacks', the average high for this day in East Tennessee is 46... Read Full Story
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Yesterday was the birthday of the most important person in my life, and somehow I managed to pop the celebratory balloons... <---------That's the Crazy Tomato posing with the cake she and I made her mom. CT insisted it be a princess cake, and I completely understand why. Her mom is a princess. But instead of getting the royal treatment from yours truly yesterday, I decided to let a lot of unnecessary baggage be the wet blanket of the weekend. You have no idea how sorry I am for that fact too... Read Full Story
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My masculinity has been called into question of late, and I'm mad as heck about it too! There. That sounded pretty forceful. I've been called a lot of different things in my life, but accused of being dainty or effeminate (read sissy) are tags I've never had to wear...for good reason. While there have been a few descriptive adjectives thrown my direction in the past that, admittedly, made me a bit uncomfortable, I won't rehash said accusatory attributes to avoid giving credence. However, I... Read Full Story
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I mean come on! You can't be serious... Unfriend?! My initial reason for jumping into the social media fray so long ago was what I thought to be out of necessity ( explained here ). While it's a never ending, uphill battle, I try to be a responsible and conscientious parent. Go where the kids are if you want to know what's going on may seem like common sense advice, but least we never forget that common sense is hardly common place...and even rarer is universally common (aka one size fits all... Read Full Story
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For some reason, I find cussing quite perplexing... but that's to myself of course. Let me qualify that opening statement by drawing some clear distinctions about what cussing actually is or isn't in my opinion. In the inarticulate world of expletives, there are undefined categories that none the less draw obvious conclusions. While most people haphazardly lump cursing, cussing, profanity and vulgarity under an all-inclusive verbal umbrella, I challenge the notion as a mere bastardizing of... Read Full Story
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If you think I'm at all worried about the impending destruction of the world this year...better think again Jack. I find a tremendous amount of humor in the time and energy spent discussing and debating the 'great end of the world' as allegedly predicted by the subsequent ending of an extinct culture's calendar. Has anyone stop to think maybe Mesoamericans couldn't count past 1,383,136? Maybe there is no 1,383,137 in their numbering system? How about the fact that the end of the current... Read Full Story
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I watched the Crazy Tomato's Christmas program at church last night, and not a single kid sang the songs looking straight up at the ceiling... Does that fact take anything away from my annual yuletide enjoyment of that sappy Brown kid and his array of smart-alacky friends? Absolutely not. Charlie Brown Christmas is, and always will be, a holiday tradition for me. Along with watching the antics of the Griswold family (including Cousin Eddie) each year, Chuck and the gang have a knack for... Read Full Story
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We've added a new holiday tradition to the Tony C household, and I must admit I've gotten into it...just a little bit. Some of you may be familiar with Elf on the Shelf . Until this year, I was not. Here's how the racket works according to the company's propaganda: Every day from Thanksgiving until Christmas Eve, each family's scout elf watches over the children and then at night, once everyone goes to bed, the elf flies back to the North Pole to report back to Santa about what activities... Read Full Story
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First off, I'm not trying to score pre-holiday brownie points here... The fact simply is- I genuinely love my in-laws. From the very get-go, there were a number of potential obstacles in the way of a smooth transition going into my relationship with Mrs. Tony C. The biggest being the fact that I had practically gone to school with her parents. Let me state for the record, they are both OLDER than me by a few years. So for those of you not keeping up, I am indeed somewhat older than my... Read Full Story
