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4 Jan 2024 4 minute read 0 comments OfTheFreeMarket $0.00
“With a gun a man can rob a bank, with a bank a man can rob the world.” – Carter Glass If you’re familiar with fractional reserve banking, then you know that money seems to appear out of thin air. Well, not so much seemingly as literally. It’s a...
31 Dec 2023 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.03
toy collection at an artists’ retreat “Lenny! Get over here!” the foreman, Bob Griffin, barks at him from across the muddy expanse of their work site. Rivet gun in hand, Lenny was en route to the makeshift elevator, which would take him t...
31 Dec 2023 1 minute read 1 comment WinterYeti $0.27
I talked earlier this week about really useful life hacks, and I do practice what I preach. Today was a nice Saturday weekend run with my daughter off to the local Goodwill with a jam-packed parking lot, and an even bigger line of people donating. Th...
29 Dec 2023 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.02
Approximately ten minutes after leaving the art institute, they arrive in the nearest sleepy hamlet all over again, gliding down a gentle curve to the southwest, crossing one state route, before nearing the Fairlawn Diner. Apart from one na...
27 Dec 2023 6 minute read 0 comments evgenima $0.03
Jesus said to him, "If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? Follow me!" Daily Bible Reading: Wednesday, December 27, 2023 John 21:20-25 (NRSV) John, Apostle and Evangelist 20Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus...
24 Dec 2023 4 minute read 1 comment jasonmcgathey $0.03
Sometimes Kay resents the relationship Emily has with her parents. Well, not resent, exactly, more like it fills her with profound sadness, and leads to bouts of fantasy when contemplating the situation over here. She often wonders how di...
22 Dec 2023 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.01
The return trip southwest, to their hometown of Jenson, NC, takes right at an hour. This region one of those odd pits devoid of interstates, between the two points, a drive involving state routes and country roads between countless towns...
22 Dec 2023 1 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.05
Greetings friends, fans, and perhaps an ambushed victim or two caught unawares! My 9th book, “Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot” is all set for a March 20, 2024 release date. In case anyone stumbling upon this piece doesn’t already know, this “...
21 Dec 2023 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.01
As they are leaving with pamphlets and all kinds of other information in hand, Kidwell points out, heartily chucking as he does, that if they had never turned off onto this road, they were actually moving in the right direction and would...
20 Dec 2023 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.01
They pass the lake in a flash, just one S curve of a bridge, which slips through the narrowest visible point between its shores. To their left, the slightly shorter expanse, and a sign indicating it’s the reservoir for the nearby town of...
