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BooBerry: My Personal Time Machine
Certain things take me back in time. When I see them, it’s like I’ve gone through a wormhole and come out in my childhood. Around this time of year, it happens a lot. Maybe I’m walking down the cereal aisle at Meijer and I find myself on the floor with a gallon of milk and…
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Who Is Your Hero?
Who is your hero? Every kid gets this kind of question at some point. It has several incarnations, who do you want to be like if you could be anyone who would you be, and on an on. My first recollection of answering this question is indelible. At Lucas Congregational Church in Sunday school, I…
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Politics = Pro-Wrestling
I abhor politics. This will be as close to expressing an opinion on political matters as I will get. We are all inundated with political views, beliefs and vomitous punditry exploded into our social media feeds. Everyone is right and they are rearing for a fight if you have the audacity to disagree. I don’t…
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War On Christmas: Down The Chimney Chapter One: Reindeer Down
This is the first chapter of War On Christmas: Down The Chimney. You can follow along with the story as it’s posted every other week by subscribing at Channillo.com! Once you join you can read as many authors as you want. Chapter One: Reindeer Down He tired of looking at Dunder and Blixem’s brown eyes.…
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I Am Not You
Has this ever happened to you? You are in a mixed group of folks, different backgrounds, genders and what not, and everyone is getting along. One by one the group whittles itself down to a smaller group of people who share the same background and gender. You are left in this homogeneous group. Then one…
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The Diary of Cotton Mather
A little while back, I became obsessed with the famed Puritan, Cotton Mather. In large part, his mention in the Washington Irving tale, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, put me on the trail. Me, being a paranormal radio show host at the time, found this tidbit most intriguing. Where I never gave it a second…