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August 2010 – Jotting Joan

Month: August 2010

  • Redneck wrestling table

    With his family gone, Roger Cheshier read the classified ads uninterrupted – until he came across the ad selling an arm wrestling table. He read the ad again. “An arm wrestling table! That has got to be the ultimate redneck item. Who needs something like that,” he laughed and tossed the paper aside. With the…

  • poverty with plenty

    Abundance in the midst of a recession. It is the only way to describe the current economic crunch. The sharp financial downturn of recent years has increased the unemployment to double digits. Requests for services from charitable organizations and federally funded assistance programs have risen significantly. Shopping has increased at thrift stores, consignment shops and…

  • Dedicated dads make a difference

    Dedicated dads made the difference in the lives of Ryan Sparks and Lorenzo Odone. Ryan Sparks, second son of best selling author Nicholas Sparks, spent a year going from one medical clinic to another as his parents sought to understand why he did not speak. Each time a different diagnosis labeled him inadequately as deaf,…

  • playing with the big boys

    If you want to work with the big boys, you have to wear the clothes, as our three-year-old grandson knows. For a week he pulled on a fedora, clipped a tie to his T-shirt, grabbed a pad of paper and stuffed pens in his pocket and put on his heavy shoes so he could stomp…