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I didn’t think the rocks were nails, but I could tell the hammer would crack them open. It wasn’t so much the wrong tool as the wrong job.
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Dan Clouse
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9/30/26
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Sometimes, though, saying nothing actually is the right thing.
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Dan Clouse
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4/1/26
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A telescope, coming rain, Esau’s mess of pottage, and a unicorn. Which one doesn’t belong? You were thinking unicorn, right? It’s imaginary. It has four legs.
But wait! A Key …
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Dan Clouse
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11/26/25
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Children love memorizing. It’s
delightful to watch a proud child singing
the alphabet or counting numbers. Not
to mention watching the parents and
grandparents thrill at the …
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Dan Clouse
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7/30/25
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KP Reads: Rather than looking for what you think you’ll find, take the events in the story as they come.
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Dan Clouse
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7/2/25
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Did you hear that the Department of Transportation is planning to put a $3 toll on the Purdy Bridge? You hadn’t heard?
Must be because it’s not true.
Happy April Fool’s …
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Dan Clouse
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3/26/25
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There just aren’t that many different ways to say, “I love you.”
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Dan Clouse
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1/29/25
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Before the invention of farming around 10,000 years ago, humans had to forage for food. It was a precarious, hand-to-mouth lifestyle, back then before Joe Biden or Keith Richards were even born.
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Dan Clouse
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8/28/24
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Every food you eat is located on a spectrum between the familiar and the unusual.
Favorite foods should always be the same, especially at breakfast. Every morning, it’s gotta be Pop-Tarts, …
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Dan Clouse
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7/31/24
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Young whippersnappers can hardly believe their ears when I’m talking.
It sounds like the History Channel when I trot out dinosaurs like “TV set,” “Beatles album,” …
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Dan Clouse
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5/29/24
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Emerson observed in one of his early essays that when we reflect on our lives, “behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off.”
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Dan Clouse
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2/28/24
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Sure, you expect to laugh at lists of crazy Engrish menu mistranslations on social media, “Braised Dork with Bamboo Gunfires,” not to mention episodes of The Three Stooges.
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DAN CLOUSE
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11/30/23
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Who said we have no sense of history around here?
I mean, we love to retell the old stories of anarchists, contraception pioneers, free love, and —gasp — nude bathing in Home Colony …
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Dan Clouse
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9/27/23
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If, as the Bard informs, brevity is the soul of wit, what could be wittier than a one-liner?
President Calvin Coolidge was a typically taciturn Vermonter. Not for “Silent Cal” the …
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Dan Clouse
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8/30/23
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It’s August, and the blackberries are ripe. That pie in the oven is distracting you from the monthly newspaper. Gardens are ascending to the peak of their harvest season, and there are fresh …
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Dan Clouse
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8/2/23
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Riddle me this: What do iceboxes, typewriters and videotapes have in common?
Outdated technology, right? …
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Dan Clouse
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5/31/23
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I am not quite old enough to remember the assassination of Lincoln, but I do remember hearing Hank Snow’s 1962 hit “I’ve Been Everywhere, Man” on AM radio.
If you are a youngster, that’s …
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Dan Clouse
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3/1/23
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The Temptations’ Motown classics, “My Girl,” “Get Ready” and “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” were music highlights of my high school years.
The songs …
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Dan Clouse
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10/27/22
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Not to be hypersensitive, but I can’t help but wince when someone says, “no offense, but …,” and then goes straight into an insult.Just as “not to bore you with the …
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Dan Clouse
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7/27/22
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The procrastinator’s spirit animal is the crow.
Back in fourth century Armenia, as the story goes, a wicked crow looked up and wheedled a Roman centurion named Expeditus into putting off …
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Dan Clouse
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4/26/22
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