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70Growing Organic Pineapples Commercially
Field showing the deep furrows My family and I got to travel to Costa Rica from 26 Feb, 2009 to 2 Mar, 2009, courtesy of Collins Street Bakery in Corsicana, Texas. My wife won a drawing for a trip for four to...
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68My Grandfather's Snake Story
Since my grandfather passed away when I was only two or three years old, this story was passed down by my grandmother to us grandchildren. I have no reason to doubt the story's truth and so I pass it along as...
6 comments67In Writing, Is Brevity Better?
I recall an idea that I believe was put forth by Mark Twain that he could speak for a couple of hours with a few minutes notice, but that if he had to limit his speech to less than a half-hour, he needed...
12 comments60The Promise of Recycling
Back when the recycling idea was first proposed and soon after people started buying into the idea, one of the arguments was that recycled materials would reduce costs over newly created items. Aluminum cans...
1 comment59What Does the US Post Office Have Against Mothers?
I have noticed an alarming trend in the past few years and it raises some serious questions. Postage increases are scheduled for Mother's Day, which is one of the highest-volume mail periods each year. Is...
4 comments59Twitter-style challenge
Back in the Spring of 2008, I won the very first Twitter fiction contest. It was a challenge issued at large by Copyblogger (Brian Clark) to his subscribers. The idea was simple, but actually doing it was...
0 comments58Hardest Task Ever!
I had to perform the hardest management task ever the other day. Because of economic conditions, I had to terminate an employee who was exceptional and had done nothing to deserve being let go. It is a...
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57Pura Vida!
Volcano Arenal taken morning of Saturday, 28 Feb, 2009 from about 4 - 5 Km distance. I returned from a trip to Costa RIca on Monday evening with my family. We had been there since Thursday and got to see some...
7 comments53Reading Fantasy & Science FIction
I hear people frequently say that they do not read fantasy & science fiction since it isn't real literature. I would point out that the broad definition of fantasy is any story which contains elements of...
1 comment52Is There a Need for Haste When You Have Time Travel?
I am working on a novel based on my winning entry in the first Twitter Writing Contest that took place almost a year ago. It is a story about the man who first discovers how to make a time machine and travel...
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