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RIP Katherine Smith (1919ish-2017)

Saturday, April 1, 2017

So when I learned the exact time Wednesday that my old friend Katherine died I thought back about “what was I doing at that very moment?” I had an afternoon assignment teaching one of the farther schools I sub at so I drove to a natural spring near there to fill up some 1-gallon containers. […]

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How & where U can buy my Frybread song. :)

Saturday, March 19, 2016

You can buy the song at iTunes and Amazon too but I’ve always made it available lots of places free (pro bono) as well. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C36NL1E http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/chiapaneca-single/id446265622     Call me crazy, sure. But it’s always been more important to me that I share this story with people all over the world than make a buck […]

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Happy Thanksgiving/ThanksTaking, Everyone.

Thursday, November 26, 2015

Happy Thanksgiving/ThanksTaking everyone. Here’s another musical memory to share. Sometime around 2006 I co wrote the following song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM8p61y7ARU It was the weekend before Thanksgiving I remember that. I was on a bus returning from Phenix City Alabama to Green Bay Wisconsin and a friend of mine, John Heckenlively counted 22 Wafflehouses that we drove […]

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2014 THE YEAR THAT WAS: Journaling What FB’s Anniversary-Algorithm Left Out:

Friday, January 2, 2015

Happy Valentine’s Day, err’budd… I mean Groundhog day, ummm, I mean Polar Plunge day, or Solar Flare? Bipolar Hair day. Fred Astaire; Stroller Chair, everywhere. Yes, I mean that from the depths of my heart, top and bottom. So here’s a recap of my year. Much more in depth than the algorithm Facebook decided to […]

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JOURNAL POEM 24 – Poems For Roberta Blackgoat

Sunday, August 10, 2014

Cappuccino. Monkey and Bull make meal of Pomegranite, potatoes, pineapple & peppers. LL Zamenhof worked Pepsi’s graveyard Shift til the day he died. Poetic. Death not for lack of irony. For growing calamity, asks Esperanza, Does one need fertilizer? Removes tongue from cheek. 1477. Chris visits Iceland inquiring As a wannabe Portugese picking up Waterfront […]

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Living Simply So Others May Simply Live

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

I saw two minutes of an infomercial back in the day about installing copper tubing or plastic tubing for your automatic ice maker.   “If you don’t like that skunky taste your ice cubes might give off you can buy one of our in-line filters…”   My response is if you really don’t like the […]

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Blogging My Method For Daily Teeth Whitening

Thursday, December 5, 2013

What I do is get the brush wet, pour a tiny bit of toothpaste on, flatten that with another splash of water then pour the tiniest bit of turmeric on the toothpaste itself. I start scrubbing the front of the teeth and by the time I move around my whole mouth is naturally salivated just […]

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Woah, I Guess “Frybread’s” Gonna Get Out There and Impact So Many People!

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

The other day I saw a friend in a coffee shop and related a moment when I went out in the hallway as a substitute teacher and a schoolkid yelled “mr marco,” smiled and waved and then began singing slightly altered lyrics to my song “frybread,” something like “nana… nana… make me some frybread, make […]

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Try this great recipe for Marco’s Sweet Tanka Chili

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Marco Frucht of Connecticut is a poet, songwriter, folksinger and classical guitarist who is a big fan of Tanka Bar. He participated in early test marketing for our products. You can hear his music on his Reverbnation page. Marco has concocted a chili recipe of his own design which we have dubbed “Marco’s Sweet Tanka […]

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Humbled by my friend Aaron and so many others!

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

My friend Aaron saw me in a Starbucks the other day and said “I really love your ‘Frybread’ song.” I blushed and said thanks. “No, you don’t know. I mean I really really love it. My girlfriend loves it, the kids love it, we play it in the car constantly.” I’m so grateful he loves […]

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