Tag: coffee
member name: Mike Walton
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October 22, 2006 02:45 PM EDT --
"Can I get you anything else?"
"No." The man looked at his watch. It was two minutes before four in the morning.
"Okay, here's your check and thank you very . . .
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November 06, 2006 03:11 PM EST --
(From "Eagle Feathers" by Mike Walton (c) 2003 Settummanque!)
(The issue was that a group of Scouts cleaned a yard and did some home sprucing for a family that was really bad-off, . . .
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October 07, 2006 10:29 AM EDT --
She wanted me to call her Mary Kay. When she walked into the room, carrying documents under her left elbow, I stood and offered to take them.
"I'm fine. Thanks for offering. . . .
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January 21, 2007 03:00 PM EST --
(from "Eagle Feathers" by Mike Walton (c) 1993 Settummanque!)
One of the highlights from my Scout Chaplain experience in Louisville, Kentucky many years ago was the presentation given by one . . .
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January 26, 2007 02:41 PM EST --
(based on a joke told over and over again via spammed email via the Internet)
Many of you are aware that I spend a considerable amount of time at my local "watering hole" when . . .
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February 16, 2007 01:32 PM EST --
(From "Eagle Feathers" by Mike Walton (c) 2003 Settummanque!)
My mother told me once that you can stop being a daddy but you can never stop being a mother. It wasn't until I saw the Blue . . .
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October 16, 2006 08:24 AM EDT --
(based upon the song "My Traveling Star" as performed by James Taylor, one of my favorite musical artists.)
The early morning light barely made it over the trees before she woke. She
calmly . . .
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September 28, 2006 07:38 AM EDT --
This is taken from "Eagle Feathers", and will be included in "Patches and Pins", both by Mike Walton
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The reporter asked me "What are some of your Thanksgiving traditions? . . .
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February 17, 2007 02:06 PM EST --
(Based upon a story circulating around the Internet...perhaps you've read this somewhere!)
Okay. Here's the deal.
I have a wonderful friend named Diane. Diane for many years -- as long . . .
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March 03, 2007 01:55 PM EST --
(From a story circulating around the Internet...perhaps you've seen this somewhere....)
By now, you know how I spend many of my lunches, especially those on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On those . . .
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January 13, 2008 11:36 PM EST --
(Originally included in "Patches and Pins..." by Mike Walton (c) 1998.)
I have three natural children with the first wife, Millie. My oldest, named Lauren, started school a month and a . . .
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August 06, 2008 11:09 PM EDT --
(Based on a joke circulating around the Internet...you' ve probably read or "heard" it...)
The first time I saw Terry, it was in 2004. I was introducing Eliza to some of my friends at . . .
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September 24, 2006 09:08 AM EDT --
Perhaps you've seen me. I'm the guy that stood in the coffee aisle, just standing there, hands in my pockets and my nose in the air smelling the different brands and smells of that part of . . .
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September 24, 2006 09:24 AM EDT --
Something in the Medicine
The Vicks Company makes a fine line of syrups, salves and potions designed to make one feel much better, even if they still are nothing but living snotrags for a short . . .
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October 11, 2006 09:53 AM EDT --
Over the years, when I tell a story, there's always someone in the audience or reading the item who is saying in the back of their minds (if they are not saying it right out!) "He's making . . .
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September 27, 2006 04:19 PM EDT --
(This has been included as the prologue to "Eagle Feathers", my second book about Scouting and myself. (c) 1997 Mike Walton ("no such thing as strong coffee,...") )
About five . . .
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September 28, 2006 07:51 AM EDT --
Remember when your Mom told you that "you eat too much
chocolate and your teeth will rot??" or when Dad told
you to "eat your carrots -- they'll make your eyes
sharper!" All . . .
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October 01, 2006 04:20 AM EDT --
(From "Patches and Pins" (or "The Quest for the Silver Beaver....") Settummanque(c) 1988)
How can one tell the better Scouting meetings from those that just are, well, average?? . . .
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October 28, 2006 07:44 AM EDT --
(from "Eagle Feathers", by Mike Walton/Settummanque (c) 2003)
Since shopping this book around, EVERY editor plasters this one story with all kinds of stickers:
"While I . . .
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October 06, 2006 01:56 PM EDT --
(From "Eagle Feathers", (c) 1993 Mike Walton/Settummanque!)
One of the many things I enjoy about being a partner to Jessica and being the father to my kids is discovering how . . .
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