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OK, now that I've gotten the kind of heavy stuff out of the way...now we can go with the story I was originally planning on writing this evening. If we set the Wayback Machine for a little over two weeks ago, you would have found me in a classroom for the first time in about thirty years learning everything about becoming a Notary Public for the Old North State and then sitting one of the…

I had hoped to write of much happier news after Katie's and Enloe's first lacrosse game of the season but this afternoon's bit of excitement really won't wait. Today was Unify which is a special club at Enloe which pairs kids with special needs with mentors for fun activities geared for them. It could be some sort of sport or crafting activity and it's a nice way for Alex and Katie to spend an extra…

Another week, yet another act of verbal self-immolation that is absolutely and breathtakingly lacking in even a modicum of self-awareness of the blatant racism being spewed. This time, "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams finds himself square in the cross-hairs of outrage with hundreds of newspapers that syndicated/reprinted the strips dropping "Dilbert" from their funny pages. Truth be told, it was hard not to be shocked that there apparently are still hundreds of newspapers in circulation in…

Every now and then, I find myself wandering over to "The Globe and Mail" website for a bit of news from the Great White North. It seems so ironic mourning the passing of Gordon Pinsent who delightfully played Constable Benton Fraser's deceased father Robert on the series "Due South". "Due South" had the distinction of being the first Canadian-produced show to have a prime-time broadcast slot on a major American television network (CBS). It was…

For the first time in over 30 years, I found myself in a college classroom this morning to take the NC Secretary of State’s required course to become an official North Cackalacky Notary Public. The course and the examination one has to sit afterward has a reputation for being one of if not the most stringent and toughest in the nation requiring 80% as a passing score prior to being able to make application. As…