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Month: January 2025

  • Fine Dining and Adventurous Cooking

    Fine Dining and Adventurous Cooking

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    There are two things that I find a little annoying about my current battle with leukemia. One is the shortness of breath and the other is the loss of appetite. I am in one of the best restaurant towns I have ever seen, but I have almost no appetite and feel full very quickly. I…

  • The Mixologists

    The Mixologists

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    Pictured above are Spencer “Lot” Garcia, bartender extraordinaire  at Chases on the Beach in New Smyrna Beach, and I on one of my non-abstinence days. I used to say that I made more money tending bar my first couple of years at St. Lawrence than I did in my many hours of sports information work.…

  • Building a Writing Style

    Building a Writing Style

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    A note on the College Football Playoffs: The seventh and eighth seeds will play for the national championship…they are the two best teams in the playoffs and deserve to be there. There is obviously something to be done about the way teams are seeded! Today’s Post I went back to the archives to check the…

  • An Ideal Situation

    An Ideal Situation

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    I retired in June of 2016 and was pleasantly surprised to see that my retirement fund had grown nicely. There were plenty of discussions along the way with fellow employees at St. Lawrence as to the best way to manage the TIAA-CREF accounts that the University had as a pension plan. If I have this…

  • Casa RB

    Casa RB

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    RB…A Special Breed of Cat “He’s not my RB…he’s not your RB…he’s our RB!” Beth Burr Dossantosat the St. Lawrence Inn 1995. I am spending the winter of 2025 in what I call Casa RB, a very attractive condo in the Bouchelle Island complex on the Indian River. It is owned by Russell B. Lawrence…

  • Cowboy Boots and Ushankas

    Cowboy Boots and Ushankas

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    As a prelude to this post, I highly recommend reading the article on President Joe Biden in today’s USA Today! “In the extensive and storied history of SLU Hockey, Wally Johnson may very well end up being the longest serving member of this hockey program,” noted Greg Carvel, men’s hockey head coach at SLU. “Wally…

  • My War with Meta

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    I am not sure war is the right term. To have a war, someone has to fight back, right? In the last two years I have had my Facebook page hacked, pirated and finally deleted. Try to contact Meta for help…not happening Charlie! Last year a hacker put a post on my page that I…

  • My Heroes

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    Everyone should have heroes…someone they really look up to and admire. I have a bunch of heroes and they will be presented here sorted into categories. Family: My parents, Walt and Joreen Johnson both have to fit the heroes category. They were good, and thankfully patient parents to myself, sister Judy, brothers John and Chris…

  • Good News and the Southern Trip

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    The best Christmas present of 2024 was delivered on December 30 by Mansour Gergi, MD. My second bone marrow biopsy showed enough positive progress to defer my second round of chemotherapy and enabled me to meet my goal of reaching New Smyrna Beach, FL by Jan. 2. I think Dr. Gergi would have preferred that…

  • An Interesting Road To Mortality

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    As one who chronicled a significant number of athletic seasons through a 47 year career in sports journalism and sports information, I have thought a chronicle of my “journey toward mortality” might be a worthy undertaking. This is going to be way too long to be a Facebook post…as a matter of fact I am…