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Another Essay That’s For The Birds

Posted on March 21, 2021 by Mike Slickster

Almost like clockwork, a couple of ospreys have returned to my neck of the woods for another breeding season, although, not exactly in Andalusia yet. Usually they appear around St. Patrick’s Day, but have been arriving late for the past … Continue reading →

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Political Platitudes, Sedition and Treachery

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Mike Slickster

The holidays are history, thank goodness, which were painful for many this time around. Due to not being able to gather with family and friends safely in large numbers, resulting from COVID-19 and a variant thereof (into week 43 of … Continue reading →

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Going to California

Posted on December 13, 2020 by Mike Slickster

On this past Thursday, 10th December, my dad would have been 103 years old. Talk about my feeling older than dirt, for I’m around 40 years behind him, not wanting to reveal my age. He passed away in 2006 and … Continue reading →

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Ode to 2020

Posted on December 5, 2020 by Mike Slickster

If you’re sensitive about politics,Don’t read this; it will probably make you sick.That’s my warning about this diatribe in verse,I don’t want you to feel any worse. Almost half of the U.S. leans towards the right,The rest veers left, most … Continue reading →

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Happy Holidaze!

Posted on November 28, 2020 by Mike Slickster

Here’s hoping you counted your blessings on Thanksgiving Day, gratified that 2020 is almost over. Not much to be thankful for from this past year, albeit. My short list was topped with being grateful I’m still alive throughout this ongoing … Continue reading →

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The Lost Year

Posted on September 26, 2020 by Mike Slickster

Who’d ever have thought at the end of 2019 that the forthcoming year would be truly dystopian? Not me, certainly. I imagined it would be like all the others pertaining to my having bad luck and getting no respect, but … Continue reading →

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Blah, Blah, Blah

Posted on August 3, 2020 by Mike Slickster

Spent the last couple of days indoors, laying low and avoiding the continuation of a heat wave that was suppose to disappear as we started this new month of August. In the Philadelphia region, we sweated through 21 days of … Continue reading →

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Life Will Go On!

Posted on May 17, 2020 by Mike Slickster

Week 10 of self-isolation has begun, although my staying at home all the time is not happening. I would have been taken away in a straight jacket by now, had it not been for outdoor trips to exercise in close … Continue reading →

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Strange Days Indeed

Posted on March 28, 2020 by Mike Slickster

Into week three of my self-induced isolation—now lawfully mandated here in Bucks County, PA—I don’t foresee an end to this COVID-19 crisis anytime soon in the U.S., nor anywhere else in the world; although, the tide of the coronavirus disease … Continue reading →

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Out With the Old and In With the New

Posted on January 5, 2019 by Mike Slickster

Happy New Year, as if you haven’t heard that enough times already. Five days into 2019 and it’s been feeling more like spring than winter, although that is not a complaint. At this moment in 2018, we were suffering with an arctic … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: 2020

Another Essay That’s For The Birds

Going to California

Ode to 2020

The Lost Year

Life Will Go On!

Strange Days Indeed

Out With the Old and In With the New

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