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Quote of the Week: “When you are dead, you don’t know that you are dead. It is difficult only for the others. It is the same when you are stupid.”

Some health advisors are fearing that our current pandemic of COVID-19 could continue on for several more years. That is if we keep on blundering in our fight against this virus like we have been.

We stopped at the gas station to fill up the car. It was one of our rituals on my monthly visits: a trip to the hardware store, a fill-up.

Quote of the Week…..“I think we need to stop calling it ‘working from home’ and start calling it ‘living at work.’”

Last week was when a big political rally for Trump went awry. Or was that Trump that went awry? Sedition? Coup? Who did this? Blame who you want, it looks like it is time to pay the bill. I do not know how much damage was done to our Capitol building but it was significant.

It was on April 12, 1944 when the radio announcer alerted us to an upcoming and important news bulletin we paused and listened. Yes, Franklin Roosevelt had just died and the new man taking his place was a guy named Harry Truman. Who?

One of our friends recently sent the following item to us and we thought our readers would enjoy it….

We received the following letter this week and wanted to share it with our readers . . .

Christmas is over and even during these challenging economic times, a recent report reveals that a record amount of money was spent on toys this year. Color TVs and computers also had a banner year. To sum it up, we may talk about bad times but the fact is most of us enjoy a great life . . .

Christmas is the greatest time of the year. In 1938 my parents moved us (Mom, Dad, Gerald, and me) from Allen to a town called Centrahoma. There I met Letha Mae. It was there I started paying attention to Christmas.