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Posts published by “Tommy Wayne Kramer”

Get A Dog, Improve Two Lives

When people get old they start getting rid of stuff. Thus we have warehouses full of china place settings and volumes of National Geographic (“Every issue from 1953 to October, 2024, free to good home!”)…

A Random Act Of Kindness

Back in the1980s came a bumpersticker that advised us to “Practice Random Acts of Kindness.” It was early virtue signaling, meant less to instruct others in proper behavior, more to cast the car’s driver in…

Carolina Codeine Fiends

Had a cough that lasted so long I was going to name it (“Sputum” has a nice ring, plus it’s an olde family name) but first went to the doctor. I picked the right one…

Loud Ugly Music Ruins Stuff

You may think it’s all in your head because you’re getting older. Maybe you think the world really isn’t getting noisier, louder and filled with more distractions. Maybe you think it’s just your imagination. And…

Let’s Do The Trump Dance

Sculpting Donald Trump’s journey into epic poetry or Hollywood screenplay would demand neither exaggeration nor fiction. Trump’s path from 2016 political ingenue to the White House is without parallel, and his 2020 defeat, dealt him…

‘Bring Me A Rock’

If I were arrested, charged with crimes and faced years in prison the first thing I would do is get a sleeping bag and camp out every night in front of my lawyer’s office. It…

Next Time, A Greyhound

I told my wife we’d have to leave early in the morning to catch our flight back to North Carolina, and she shot back a cold, level look. “How early,” she said. It wasn’t a…

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