To Hell - and back

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Rockin Robin

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Not long ago, one of my internet friends admitted that she has switched from NPR and CNN to Twitter as her main source of news. For some rea...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

It's Not About the Goat

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The family of Joe Ricketts, an Omaha billionaire, recently finalized the purchase of the Chicago Cubs from the Tribune Company for $845 mill...
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Friday, August 21, 2009

How to talk Minnesotan

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In my lifetime, I’ve studied six languages: English, Latin, Spanish, German, American Sign Language, and Mandarin, and my father also taught...
Sunday, August 16, 2009

I'd walk a mile for a Camel

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Camels, the first commercially available cigarettes sold in America, were introduced in 1913 by a man named R.J. Reynolds. The cigarettes we...
Sunday, August 9, 2009

the dark side of chocolate

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We recently added a new manager to the management team at The Autobarn . His first name is Vasco, but it’s pronounced a lot like “Bosco”. Wh...
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Sunday, August 2, 2009

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?

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McCormick Place in Chicago, with its 2.2 million sq. ft. of exhibition space, is the largest trade fair site of North America. Annually, M...
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Is this heaven?

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No, it’s Iowa Just before Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta), in the 1989 movie, Field of Dreams , trotted back into the cornfield for the fi...
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Tom Brennan
Flagstaff, AZ, United States
I sold cars for The Autobarn of Evanston from February of 2005 until my retirement in July of 2011. Immediately prior to that, I was a college level English instructor in Guangzhou, China. Being Irish, I have long felt a compulsion to put down my thoughts on paper. After one of my customers published a few of my stories on HER blog site (Dwana), I eventually figured out how to publish stories on my own site. The first story (To Hell and back - on a bicycle) appeared on March 4,2009. The inspiration for the title is a man named Clayton Klein, an elderly Michigan man who walks from Paradise (Michigan) to Hell (Michigan) every year (a distance of 420 miles) to raise money for charity. His story, as well the bicycle ride that my daughter and I undertook in the summer of 2007, provided the starting point for what became the site titled tohell-and back.
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