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It Is So Smoky That…
This has certainly been a summer of smoke. While the Western and Southwestern parts of our nation seem to always have a number of big wildland fires going on, I don't know for sure what their lingering...
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Zen Zone #19
A little Firehouse Zen humor, borrowed from the prolific author, Anonymous: "Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them." I actually do...
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Zen Zone #39
"Do I look like a cat to you boy? Am I jumpin' around all nimbly bimbly from tree to tree? Am I drinking milk from a saucer? DO YOU SEE ME EATING MICE?" – Trooper Foster, Super Troopers Sometimes you...
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Merry Christmas – A Call to Lead
I really didn't notice until now, but this is the 300th post on Firehouse Zen. Since I'm not churning out three or four a day (or even a week), that's pretty astounding to me. And what better time of...
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Okay, It’s 2012: Now What?
An article on the Buddhist Channel website quoted His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, as he "called on people to be responsible human beings, to think more of the entire world they live in, rather than...
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Gone Shrimping
I grew up in the urban Northeast. In the thirty years I have been in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, I have had a few laughs about my cluelessness with the things a "boy growing up in these parts"...
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We Hate Shopping – Honoring Brian at 50
This is the countdown to March 17, and a happy 50th to my brother, Brian, the best brother anyone could ever want in the whole world. By the way, I am writing these for the most part back-to-back. If...
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Trouble – Honoring Brian’s 50th
Look familiar? This is the countdown to March 17, and a happy 50th to my brother, Brian, the best brother anyone could ever want in the whole world. It’s confession time. When I consider that at 50...
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Traveling Men – Honoring My Brother’s 50th
My Grandpop “Smokey”, my sister, and Smokey Bear. Smokey Bear is to the right. Grandpop: “Prevent forest fires, dammit, or I’m going to beat you with this child.” This is the continued countdown to...
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Work Detail – In Honor of My Brother’s 50th Birthday
Mom, Brian and I at Green Lane Park. This is the continued countdown to March 17, and a happy 50th to my brother, Brian, the best brother anyone could ever want in the whole world. Brian and I had...
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Winter – In Honor of My Brother’s 50th Birthday
My brother Brian, giving Smokey (Bear) hell. Happy 50th Birthday to my dear brother Brian, with only a few more days until March 17th, the day he shares with our patron saint, Patrick. I just found out...
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