As I write this at almost age 75 I recognize that while my own nickname is not really a secret, few of my current associates are privy to it nor how it came to be. Since 1969 I have been known as “The Buzzard” or just “Buzzard”. So how? Back then I went on a […]
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Below is a story about a Thanksgiving tradition in the Reizner home.
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This is a test of embedding pdf stories, but for this example, we will also paste in the text below the pdf embed. This post represents the first in a new category of stories, “Dumb Things I Have Done.” Category: Dumb Things I have Done Issue: The Human Centrifuge When we were kids the parents,
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Given the recent conflict in the Middle East, we find ourselves in an extremely difficult and painful place. While I remain ethically and religiously connected with the State of Israel and all its people, I have mixed emotions regarding the history and actions of the Likud party, the West Bank settlement, and the horrific bloodletting
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As is typical, this grand excursion started with Brother George, who pledged to buy me a trip for my 50th birthday. Of course, by the time we went, I was 61, but a wow time regardless. We booked with Hatch Expeditions, an excellent provider of Grand Canyon rafting trips. We were extremely lucky to travel
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Court Square in Philippi looking northwest along Main Street (U.S. Route 250). The Barbour County Courthouse is at right. Source WIkipedia. See link below. Read more about Philippi, West Virginia, here:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippi,_West_Virginia
Ok, the “Drink Package”. Holland American Line offers a bundled drink option. It is expensive, over $60/per day, and when we first cruised with HAL we figured a need to drink over 12 cocktails a day to break even. Note that it applies to specialty coffee as well. For this 2022 venture HAL comp’d us
The following is one of the earliest in the series of Reizner Crack Pot Theories. First let’s identify the class of objects. Inanimate is pretty self-explanatory. Ancient civilizations considered that all items have some element of a spirit. I do not know if this is genuine fact. All that said I have regularly experienced evidence
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I have a fair history of accepting, gifting, buying and selling various automobiles. In college people would give me vehicles. Not great ones, but they ran. Notables included a Chrysler New Yorker (huge), a Checker Marathon complete with taxi jump seats –aka the Leprosy Cab Co. – and a Chevrolet Vega – the Oy’ Vega
The Honeymoon Moon Maryann and I wed June 3, 2001 and honeymoon’d on the Old Mission Peninsula circa Traverse City, Michigan at the Neatawanta Inn. This old lodge is owned by Bob Russell and wife. We were largely eating left over hor’s d orves and drinking opened bottles of wine at a picnic table
This section is a mixing pot of random stories. If it didn’t fit into another section, it ends up here. Some of the stories deserve a post with longer narratives. This page is a showcase for these posts. As we go along, we’ll get categories of posts also so that if a topic is of
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While I was in Law School at Case Western University, I chose to not be part of the classic “study group”. My opinion at the time was that although some discussion of class assignments could be useful, it rarely happened. Rather, the case law study that was typically turned into a course outline prepared by
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