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Chris Rodell

 
It’s true: Fred Rogers & Arnold Palmer never got along
May 22nd, 2023

  (674 words) I’m proud that all my books and subsequent talks are all about spreading happiness and understanding. My aim is to uplift the downtrodden. So why is it one of the things I’m sure my audience always remembers most is something most distressful? I guess it’s because no one wants to believe that Arnold Palmer and Fred Rogers never got along. It’s true. Two of the warmest, most Originally Published on https://eightdaystoamish.blogspot.com/ Continue Reading

May 22nd, 2023
My unwanted adventure inside the women’s restroom
May 2nd, 2023

 (757 words)I mistakenly found myself on the culture war front lines Saturday at an otherwise innocent golf bash..And, yep, my penis was partly to blame.It by mistake led me into the ladies’ room.It’s where conservatives believe the about 1.4 percent of Americans who identify as transgender are massing to present temptations that likely would have sent Adam & Eve scrambling all over Eden Originally Published on https://eightdaystoamish.blogspot.com/ Continue Reading

May 2nd, 2023
Non-Tweets of the month
April 29th, 2023

 For the record, none of these “tweets” ever appeared on Twitter. I’m fed up with Musk. Tired of the repeated password exchange. Done with reading news about blue checks, etc. Still, these are best described as tweet-like, so …• SnapChat, Instagram, TikTok — 10 years ago none of us had ever heard of these. Now, they’re taking over the world. It’s a Planet of the Aps.• A military history buff, I Originally Published on https://eightdaystoamish.blogspot.com/ Continue Reading

April 29th, 2023
Admiring student says he wants to become interesting — like me!
April 12th, 2023

 (754 words)An admiring student of mine flattered me by saying he wants to become interesting “just like me.”At least I think he was admiring. He could have just been very adept at brown nosing, a tactic I’ll fall for every single time. Bona fide flatterer or skillful butt smoocher, it all has the same effect: A kid who was borderline failing has now vaulted to the top of the class.It’s so Originally Published on https://eightdaystoamish.blogspot.com/ Continue Reading

April 12th, 2023
March (what used to be called) Tweets of the Month
March 31st, 2023

 Dog (Snickers) on left from back when he was a remote-sized puppy.  No reason for posting. No reason at all. Enjoy your weekend!• I’m so conditioned to every innovation being related to snack foods that when I heard Elon Musk was promoting brain chips, I thought, man, I hope he makes some with sea salt & cracked pepper.• I’m not insinuating our local volunteers join for social reasons. I’m sure Originally Published on https://eightdaystoamish.blogspot.com/ Continue Reading

March 31st, 2023
My letter to Grace seeking grace
March 23rd, 2023

 This is the letter I wrote to the 10-year-old girl, an aspiring writer, after she gave me the only copy of her 22-page handwritten book to review and I lost it.I had her father read it first. I thought there was a chance he’d hit me. Instead, he got choked up and shook my hand.I gotta be honest: I gave a lot of serious thought to trying to lie my way out of this one …Dear Grace,When your father Originally Published on https://eightdaystoamish.blogspot.com/ Continue Reading

March 23rd, 2023
The perils of parallel parking
March 8th, 2023

 (578 words)I’ve said before that a father teaching a daughter to drive is like a warden teaching an inmate how to escape.So as of yesterday it was, “One-Adam-12! One-Adam-12! We have an APB for a female 16-year-old known to come to a complete stop even at desolate intersections. Suspect exhibits pathological disdain for having to parallel park.”That comes from me. Here’s the sum of my parallel Originally Published on https://eightdaystoamish.blogspot.com/ Continue Reading

March 8th, 2023
RIP Charlie Appleton: a great newspaperman, an even better man
March 1st, 2023

 (478 words)Charlie Appleton, the extraordinary newsman, would have frowned at all the adulatory words being used to mourn the passing of Charlie Appleton, the ordinary family man. And just the sight of the word “adulatory” in a scrappy newspaper would have set him off.He came from the man-bites-dog school of news gathering, but then raised the bar by becoming a de facto dean of the Originally Published on https://eightdaystoamish.blogspot.com/ Continue Reading

March 1st, 2023
February Tweets of the Month
February 28th, 2023

 • Legendary escape artist Harry Houdini could extricate himself from a straight jacket in just 4 minutes and 9 seconds. I have to imagine escaping from an LBGTQIA jacket would be much more time consuming.• Restitution is the act of restoring ownership of something that was illegally taken. The act of restoring something that was illegally taken but doing it with island rhythms and bales of ganga Originally Published on https://eightdaystoamish.blogspot.com/ Continue Reading

February 28th, 2023
Bravo Bucs signing McCutcheon! Now sign Bonds & Ted Williams’s head
February 17th, 2023

 (849 words)The Pittsburgh Pirates made a bold move when they signed veteran superstar and beloved former Bucco Andrew McCutchen.I love Cutch. Besides being an outstanding Pirate centerfielder from 2009-’17 and league MVP in ‘13, McCutchen plays the game like a kid. He laughs, he jokes, he cheers his teammates and generally cavorts like he can’t believe he’s getting $5 million a year to play a Originally Published on https://eightdaystoamish.blogspot.com/ Continue Reading

February 17th, 2023