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Pecan Pie for the Mind: The $45,000 plate of fried chicken
Just to see if I could do it, I ate dinner out for $2.97. I had to use a coupon, and drink water from a special he-didn’t-buy-a-drink-from-us cup, but I actually ate a full dinner for less than three bucks. That’s cheap for a meal in 2010, but back in college in 1981, I could eat out for practically nothing. In fact, I ate quite a few meals for exactly nothing because ...




Pecan Pie for the Mind: Instructions for my final day on earth
There’s absolutely nothing more annoying for a control freak like me than to relinquish important decisions to someone else. For instance, the painful subject of death came up recently, and I realized: "Hey! I won’t be in charge once I’m gone!" That’s not good. Since I like control, I should rattle off a few demands while I still can. I won’t be able to enforce my wishes when I’m six-feet-under, but maybe ...




Pecan Pie for the Mind: Murder, mayhem and an old song
Do you ever wonder why children aren’t completely insane by the time they’re adults?




Miss Opal and my Kentucky flame
As a college student, I was always grubbing for a few extra dollars. I held part-time restaurant and retail jobs, and I even built hydraulic hoses for 18-wheelers. "Anything for a buck" was my motto. It was also my excuse for becoming a telephone solicitor — that unloved wage-slave who calls your home just as you sit down to dinner. So, instead of studying or attending school events, I was often renewing ...




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