Monthly Archives: May 2021

Run Boy Run

May 24, 2021 – 9:22 am

A bunch of years ago Mark King posted this photo on FB and wrote the following; “Would you run? A ditch would be handy and probably safer than trying to outrun a tornado. I was ‘chased’ by one as a kid in Cyprus and my first instinct was attraction. Then, as tin roofs and telegraph […]

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Click My Heels

May 24, 2021 – 4:02 am

After her wondrous adventures over the rainbow in the Kingdom of Oz, Dorothy Gale clicked both heels of the ruby slippers to return to Kansas and she was quick to tell her family and friends, “There’s no place like home.” Kansas despite the tornados has always been considered the heartland of America and the prairie […]

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THIS AIN’T KANSAS / Bet On Crazy

May 23, 2021 – 10:34 pm

Every morning in 2010 I checked the weather for New York City. The forecast determined my attire for the diamond exchange, especially as the seasons of September seesawed between summer and autumn. The weather bureau predicted a temperature of 75 with rain later in the afternoon. I dressed in a lightweight suit. My umbrella was […]

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Oklahoma Isn’t Kansas

May 23, 2021 – 9:37 am

Back in May 2013 Oklahoma City was devastated by a massive tornado whipping winds over the prairie at speeds greater than 200 mph. The BBC reported that a record-breaking tornado that struck in precisely the same region in 1999, during which the fastest winds ever seen on the Earth’s surface were recorded: over 500km/h (310mph). […]

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THE CLOSET OF LOST THINGS – YOUTUBE VDO BY Peter Nolan Smith

May 21, 2021 – 10:38 am

“If you lose something, then it wasn’t yours to begin with.” Nana Nolan, my Irish grandmother. To view THE CLOSET OF LOST THINGS filmed by Andrew Kozak, please go to the following Youtube URL

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