Author Archives: PMcG

The discombobulation incident

Back then, the boy with the thick flowing hair of youth would leave home on the odd Saturday morning, and frown his way down the hill and around the bend to where Patsy the barber had been lowering ears since … Continue reading

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F.A.Q. The Elevator Speech

Q. What exactly is an elevator speech?  A. Imagine you step onto an elevator and find yourself standing next to the Big Garbanzo Bean of the company you’re dying to work for. In the next 30 seconds, before the elevator … Continue reading

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It is and it aint

Everyone, everywhere, is searching.  Some search for what they once had but foolishly lost. They held it in their bare hands but it dribbled through their fingers. They left it out too long and it went bad. They accidentally flushed … Continue reading

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Oh manhole, my manhole

It’s not much of a street, just an old country short cut wedged in between two busy state highways. There’s a large dip about halfway along the road where it runs past an unlikely post office set up in a … Continue reading

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Trials of a One Per-Center

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Loud and 99% Clear

 Katherine and I have little trouble finding things to talk about over dinner or a refreshment at happy hour.  She likes to discuss books and philosophy—vis a vis the steps and missteps along life’s continuum—as well as lunatics she has … Continue reading

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Garbage in, garbage out

Is there anything more shaming than to set out your trash cans in the morning and then to come home at night and see that your cans are still full, but all of the neighbor’s cans have been emptied? In … Continue reading

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