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Chris Rodell

A jiffy moment or two about time

(587 words)I’m a guy with plenty of time on his hands so I wonder about the passing of time pretty much round the clock.Speaking of clocks, historians say the first one was built in the year 1270. Catching a bus before then must have required infinite patience.It sounds simplistic, but I wonder how they decided […]

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October Tweets of the Month

                                        • I live in a house with 3 sassy women. I teach a class of undergrads raised to be hyper-sensitive on any number of topics. And I’m under a constant barrage by boneheads eager to engage […]

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When did chocolate milk become nutritionally evil?

 (683 words)I couldn’t tell whether the stranger was mocking me or we were on the verge of bonding over my breakfast beverage of choice.“You don’t see many grown men who feel secure enough to order one of those in a crowded diner,” he said.We were sitting at the counter in the Youngstown Grille, just up […]

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Just not a B’n’B kind of guy

 (610 words)My disdain for the Bed & Breakfast option nearly surfaced when the sweet West Virginia proprietor told us she’d had some guests from Pittsburgh the previous week.I almost blurted out, “Oh, and how did they taste?”But I bit my tongue, unnerved by the prospect that our hosts might be biting it later on.I’m not […]

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Tweets of the Month(s)

 • Val was rattled this week after seeing a picture of her late mother from when she was 4 years younger than Val is today. Her mother appeared much older. Told Val she shouldn’t be surprised. She works very hard at eating right and remaining fit, has a natural beauty and, in fact, looks better […]

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I let 15 strangers grill me about my Parkinson’s

(895 words)It was last week and I was concluding my first of 30 news gathering classes. I was just about to say the part about remembering to please get your pet spayed or neutered when an afterthought floated to the front of my mind.“Oh, and if you see me limping or my left arm shaking, […]

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After 30 years, we bid farewell to our waterbed

(471 words)Val and I did something in the bedroom we’ve even after 30 years of sleeping together had never dreamed we’d try.It was, for us at least, deviant. A little kinky.It was — and there is no way to avoid this — good and hard.I’d better explain before any of you daintier readers become faint […]

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You can again call me Professor

                                     (586 words)The last time I was honored to teach journalism to Point Park University students, I was determined to make a real impression. And I did.A real bad one.The class was three hours of me talking. Three! I showed up 10 minutes late, stumbling, barely coherent. […]

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July Tweets of the Month

 • While is one of our most nimble, yet undefined words. You can be a good while, but not a bad one. You can take a while, but you cannot give one. I’ve never encountered a nice while but our days are strewn with meanwhiles that aren’t mean at all. Idlers like me can while […]

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