scribe. editor. sarcastic curmudgeon.
You be you. I will be me.
Duane Cross
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Let’s make the most out of today. Period.
Riots did not slow MLB pipeline
It’s been 45 years since the Bicentennial celebration – and a four-hour race riot at Escambia {Fla.) High School on Feb. 5, 1976.
We’ve become numb
A year ago, President Trump was denying the emerging coronavirus. A year later, Americans are hurting. People want their lives back to normal.
Challenge the lunatic fringe
Go to the voting booth. To hell with mail-in or absentee ballots. Be in the now; pull the lever in real-time. RBG would do nothing less.
I wish it was yesterday
I’m not 10 anymore. I’m 53, and my heroes are dying. … Cherish yesterdays, when we didn’t know Tom Seaver was dead.
Grandaddy
Four years ago, we moved into my grandparents’ once-upon-a-time tobacco farmstead so I could chase a ghost.
Q: Your answer matters
Conspiracy groups can thrive only if you remain gullible. Before the General Election, do your due diligence. And vote.
#TrumpVirus
The WHO rang the bell on the novel coronavirus on Dec. 31, 2019. This is how President Trump responded …
Bright Lights, Big City
Jay McInerney’s iconoclastic first novel was a literary Bat-signal. Eventually, it led me home. Along the way, it was life well lived.