Well ladies and gentlemen, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. There comes a time in all of our lives where it becomes necessary to cut bait and get out of...
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The Penultimate Diary
Rest assured ladies and gentlemen, I didn’t really expect to pen this dispatch for several more years. Over the years that TharpSter.org has been on line, I’ve made it perfectly clear that dogs are...
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5 Minutes
¡Queue Lastima!
For those of you keeping track, I’ll be 50 in a little less than 3 months. Scroll all the way to the bottom of this site and you’ll see exactly how far away we...
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The Problems That I Have
…And then there was that time when in early November we returned to our home church after an absence of several years and life subsequently presented us with new and less than wonderful opportunities...
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5 Minutes
Go Fly A Kite
Drivers who hit and run need to go fly a kite....
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A Holiday Rant
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas y’all. Kinda. Not. Perhaps it’s me in my “advancing maturity” and burgeoning cynicism. I’ve about had it with that time of year which starts around the...
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14 Minutes
Three Stove Top Incidents That Changed My Life
Recently when the TharpSter Mom was summoned from the mountain range office she manages in order to visit the Editor, Publisher, and Chief Muckity-muck here at corporate earlier this month, a stove top incident...
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Here Come The Shriners
Suffice to say, I’ve been participating in a Yuletide prank on anywhere from two to six people since 1998. Good Lord in butter, why did I use a pagan term to discuss Christmas?...
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Not Too Seriously Now….
Well kids, Junior has graduated. He’s got his diploma, he walked the stage, and he lost his hat when he threw it up into the air. In the meantime, family was in...
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Robert Killian
Whatever happened to that guy? You probably haven’t heard of him, which is probably all the better for you. Many, many years ago when I was in my perpetual college days where I dabbled...
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