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Showing posts with label News-Herald. Show all posts
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Friday, July 11, 2025

Like any job, there are ups and downs to working in the sports industry

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Terry and me with our son Jared at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida...before the place was torn up by a hurricane. My son Jared, w...
Wednesday, October 4, 2023

30 years ago, my pregnant wife delivered newspapers with me (the paper for which I was also a sports writer)

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Terry looked like this and still helped me deliver papers. What a trooper. (Photo used with the express permission of Mrs. Terry Tennant.) I...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

The office dad joke calendar plays an important role in my life

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  Creature of habit that I am, I follow essentially the same routine every day when I arrive at my office. Once I put down my stuff and fire...
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Monday, August 21, 2023

I would die if I tried reading while walking

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A couple of years ago, I posted here about the neighborhood characters I regularly encounter on my morning walks . The lineup included Hound...
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Thursday, September 30, 2021

There is something to be gained from every unhappy experience, even if we don't see it right away

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Twenty-five years ago last night, I got maybe 90 minutes of sleep. You may rightly question why there is a small space in my brain that stor...
Monday, August 23, 2021

Deciphering what "business casual" really means in your office

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Over my 30 years in the full-time workforce, I have worked in enough places for enough companies with enough people to know that the single ...
Sunday, May 2, 2021

I took the SAT 34 years ago today. Why does my brain retain this information?

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THINGS THAT ARE STUCK IN MY BRAIN FOR WHICH I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO USE: The B-side songs for every Men at Work single on 45 The usual starting...
Tuesday, February 9, 2021

I remember delivering papers at 3 in the morning and people's front doors were wide open

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When I had a News-Herald paper route back in the Paleolithic Age (1981-83), the Saturday morning papers were sometimes delivered to my house...
Friday, March 31, 2017

What we did right with each of our kids - Part I - Elissa

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(NOTE: Parents are forever lamenting the things they wish they had done differently with their children. "I should have been more stric...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Memories of the greatest job in the world (for an 18-year-old)

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There are jobs in this world the existence of which most of us are utterly unaware. I used to hold just such a job. Twenty-five years ag...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Did I ever tell you about the time my wife dumped me? Twice?

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I have been in love with the same woman for 27 years. I often say this is one of my greatest accomplishments, but I don't know that yo...
Monday, July 8, 2013

This is not the post where I inspire you to achieve your life goals

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Actually it's not really a depressing post today as far as you're concerned. But it sort of is for me. Here's my problem: Af...
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Friday, April 12, 2013

When I was a paper boy...

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The Cleveland Plain Dealer  recently announced that it is going to cut home delivery of the newspaper back to three days a week beginning th...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Life among the ink-stained wretches

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You may have noticed on the right side of your screen that the blog is now carrying headlines from the News-Herald, our local newspaper in W...
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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Yes, I still read a newspaper every day

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Every morning I follow essentially the same routine: I get up, I feed the cats, I go downstairs and clean out their litter boxes, and then I...
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