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How Someone Can Look Fine at 70—and Then Suddenly Fall Apart

I’ll be 70 next year, and the older I get, the more I understand how someone can appear perfectly healthy…

fitness, health, life, mental-health, writing

The Watchers of Time, by Me

The book I never finished is actually one I was writing myself called The Watchers of Time. The story begins…

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Lost in Space

I’d pick Lost in Space. I’d love traveling through space, exploring strange planets, and seeing things nobody on Earth had…

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Mayberry from The Andy Griffith Show

I’d probably pick Mayberry from The Andy Griffith Show—as long as there was a good fishing lake nearby. Friendly people,…

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YOU CAN’T BUILD A LIFE—or an Economy—ON SIDE HUSTLES

I’ve been reselling used merchandise since 1979—long before eBay, Facebook Marketplace, or even the internet. I did it practically my…

freelancing, money, passive-income, side-hustle, side-hustles

Indian Removal Act of 1830.

If I could change an event in American history, I would eliminate the Indian Removal Act of 1830. This is…

culture, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2858, history, native-americans, politics, writing

I would eliminate Prohibition in the USA

If I could change one event in American history, this one would be pretty easy. I would eliminate Prohibition. In…

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Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society program

If I could change one major decision in modern American history, I would go back to the 1960s and change…

dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2858, economics, history, news, politics, poverty

Three-Fifths Compromise

If I could change one event in American history that might have prevented the Civil War, I wouldn’t stop the…

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The Way the Treaty of Versailles was Written

If I could change one event in history, I wouldn’t erase World War II. I would go back twenty years…

dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2858, fascism, germany, history, politics, war

the CIA had some level of involvement in, or at least advance knowledge of, the 1961 death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld.

Hammarskjöld died when his plane crashed in what is now Zambia while he was trying to negotiate peace during the…

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Sirhan Sirhan may not have fired the shot that actually killed Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.

This one is particularly interesting because RFK’s own son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has publicly questioned the official story. After…

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