By Butch Freedman I watch too much TV. And I’m not ashamed of it. Some medical professionals claim that watching too many hours of television is bad for your brain, that the…
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BUTCH’S BLOG: Know Your Enemy
By Butch Freedman It’s time to stop pretending we can all get along. The divide has become too deep, and too mean. I’ve never been one to “turn the other cheek.” All…
BUTCH’S BLOG: Writing on the Inside
By Butch Freedman I knew I was being played. It was the journals they were after. The aim was to score a free notebook, not to be in a writing group. What…
BUTCH’S BLOG: It Can’t Happen Here – Or Can It?
By Butch Freedman I watched a “60 Minutes” episode last night about three 80-year-olds who were born in the death camps of the Nazis in 1945. It was a story of resilience…
BUTCH’S BLOG: A Small Good Thing
By Butch Freedman I was not into it at first. Seemed overly friendly, even intrusive. I mean, you don’t do that with strangers, do you? My wife, Bev, did. She was fully…
BUTCH’S BLOG: An Old Man Surfing Through the Storms
By Butch Freedman Let’s start here: each morning that I wake up and I’m still breathing and mobile, I count as a win. After that, I go check out the surf from…
BUTCH’S BLOG: Bad Bunny vs. the Evil Empire
By Butch Freedman That trump fellow, you know, the one whose brain is made of Diet Coke and McDonald’s french fries. Yeah, that one, the clown conspirator, the one with all the…
BUTCH’S BLOG: I Cast You Out
By Butch Freedman I realize that lately I’ve allowed myself to be caught in the spider web of horrible news from horrible people. And I’m not going to allow them to do…
BUTCH’S BLOG: Crying Out in the Wilderness
By Butch Freedman I wish I didn’t have to write about Trump. Wish I didn’t have to call him out and call him names and declare his radical incompetence, his ever-increasing insanity….
BUTCH’S BLOG: An Upside-Down Life
By Butch Freedman My wife and I live in a house that real-estate agents label as an upside-down house, meaning that the living areas and kitchen are on the second floor and…
