Author: Mike Cheatham
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Letting go…a lesson too often too late.
During Thanksgiving, the grandkids showed up with a Star Wars puzzle. We put it out on the table, started putting it together…for the next few days, I worked on it alone between bad TV and background roles…nothing serious. They went (peacefully) home filled with punkin pie and ham oblivious to…
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I can see…but no leather seats?
I wrote about barely being legal to drive a short while ago, having made a decision to get my vision corrected with cataract surgery. What I did not fully understand at first; correcting my vision would also require implants. Hell, I was completely caught off guard when I learned that…
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Damn…I got fired again….
It took a few minutes for me to realize what happened, and this time, it was completely unexpected. To be very honest, there were no real visible differences in the job I was doing versus my replacement(s), in my opinion; I doubt that anyone else would have noticed without very…
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CAKFG AOY; a journey
The 2025 Clarksville Area Kayak Fishing Group tournament trail started off with a solid second place finish. Then by the second tournament I was headed for a repeat of the last several years when I found myself in twenty fourth place. Had it been 24 out of 100, I would…
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what do you mean not legal???
This has been a great year of learning so far. This month’s word – legal. It is a word I know, and have found myself doing things over time that skirted the boundaries; so technically, it is really more about its use in a specific context. I have been a…
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“Tiling” Extras – vignettes to go…
As an extra, I just learned about “crowd tiling” while on the set of a movie being filmed. The word “tiling” was explained, and then I was asked to move from the great seat I had inhabited for a concert scene. As the movement stalled for a second, I googled…
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Background was always in the background…”to be”
As a younger person, I wanted “to be” many things over time. Like a singer (but I couldn’t sing), a musician (but it never came naturally), a stoner/drifter (at that, I excelled for a while – never meant to be coke/meth/opioid addict; oh well, I survived that too)…but never did…
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Cordell Hull; 3rd place with some luck.
It has been a minute or two since I put down any words about a tournament. But for the two years since I retired as a mfg engineer, I have been telling myself I was going to fix that and talk about my often less than average fishing skills. So….here…
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Avoiding me today…
or…how to avoid cookie dough… The beauty of aging is the knowledge gained. I can finally see myself applying lessons that taught me to be, and to do better. It would be a lie to say I learned from everything I should have, but I see a person I could have…
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The new “Woke” insult…you are a minority!!
I was told yesterday that I am now a minority by a republican MAGA supporter – then they threw in the obligatory “woke”…that isn’t an insult to me by the way. They said it, not because I am a 62 yr old white male and our race is being taken…
Topwater Moon 