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Five Days in CDMX
It’s not a beach resort. Or a place where whistles are blown and tequila is violently poured into your mouth. There aren’t packs of college students from some Big 10 or SEC college on spring break. It’s Mexico City, North America’s largest capital, and the cultural, political and spiritual hub of the Mexican people. I…
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Remembering W. Paul Wharton
Paul Wharton passed away last night. He was not my uncle. He was my friend. And he would have been the first to say it. Like many of his generation, casual genealogy entered every encounter. Paul would say something to the effect that “Ben is my great niece Erin’s husband and Patsy’s son-in-law, but we…
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Putting Up with the Holidays
The Xmas decorations went up last Sunday. They’re kept in a series of boxes, more like oversized Tupperware containers, in an unfinished room in the basement. We call it the Dirt Room because of the dirt. It’s some place you’d never go into until less you were intent on retrieving something. I pulled out the…
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The Five Justins
I got a nice purple hat. That’s about all I can say regarding Utah’s 121–88 loss to Indiana. It was a drubbing. They beat us like rented mules. Skinned us alive. Took our virgins, burnt down our city and left without a scratch. I blame Justin. We don’t know his last name or where he’s…
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Creed IIa
Yep, I finally saw it. Creed II, or algebraically [Rocky 2 + Rocky 4 / Creed]. It was something else. Neither fish or fowl and certainly not much of a boxing movie. What I loved about the first Creed was the story mimicked Michael B. Jordan’s abs, lean and mean. Over the course of two…
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