Life and Other Odds & Ends Archives - Rick DeStefanis https://rickdestefanis.com/category/life-and-other-odds-ends/ Author Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:20:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://rickdestefanis.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/cropped-WordHunter-Logo-32x32.png Life and Other Odds & Ends Archives - Rick DeStefanis https://rickdestefanis.com/category/life-and-other-odds-ends/ 32 32 New knees, Books, etc. https://rickdestefanis.com/new-knees-books-etc/ https://rickdestefanis.com/new-knees-books-etc/#respond Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:20:39 +0000 https://rickdestefanis.com/?p=5678   June Newsletter Greetings to my faithful readers, fellow veterans, and anyone willing to share a few minutes of their time with me. This newsletter/blog post will update you on my writing efforts and other matters relating to my books. I apologize for not writing sooner or more often, but another knee replacement (the glory of […]

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]]> https://rickdestefanis.com/new-knees-books-etc/feed/ 0 God Pokes https://rickdestefanis.com/god-pokes/ https://rickdestefanis.com/god-pokes/#comments Fri, 10 Jan 2025 21:27:19 +0000 https://rickdestefanis.com/?p=5432 I’ve never been much of a Bible thumper—always kept my relationship with God on a somewhat personal basis. And if you’re a Marx or Nietzsche fan you probably don’t want to read this, but in the past couple weeks, God has poked me several times—not in a bad way, but he has gotten my attention. […]

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]]> https://rickdestefanis.com/god-pokes/feed/ 2 Kill a Cow–Save the Planet! https://rickdestefanis.com/kill-a-cow-save-the-planet/ https://rickdestefanis.com/kill-a-cow-save-the-planet/#respond Wed, 12 Jun 2024 02:02:11 +0000 https://rickdestefanis.com/?p=5403 I try to focus my posts on odds and ends, entertaining asides, stuff about writing, positive things, whatever, but seldom do I delve into politics. This will be a first for my Author’s blog right here at www.rickdestefanis.com. With this post, I’m stepping off into some deep stuff all the way up to my eyeballs. […]

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]]> https://rickdestefanis.com/kill-a-cow-save-the-planet/feed/ 0 The Use of The S-Word https://rickdestefanis.com/the-use-of-the-s-word/ https://rickdestefanis.com/the-use-of-the-s-word/#comments Mon, 29 Jan 2024 20:55:17 +0000 https://rickdestefanis.com/?p=5368 We had an event down here recently that made the news for four or five days running. Folks up North didn’t quite understand why we Southerners totally freaked out when it happened. No, I’m not talking about Robert E. Lee surrendering at Appomattox Courthouse. We’ve come to terms with that…such as it is. I’m talking […]

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]]> https://rickdestefanis.com/the-use-of-the-s-word/feed/ 2 November 2023 Blog/Newsletter https://rickdestefanis.com/november-2023-blog-newsletter/ https://rickdestefanis.com/november-2023-blog-newsletter/#respond Wed, 22 Nov 2023 18:02:04 +0000 https://rickdestefanis.com/?p=5321 Hello Faithful Reader, So, in the interest of humor, progressive love, and activism, I am joining the disenfranchised at great institutions such as MIT, Yale, Harvard, etc. and declaring my pronouns. (I didn’t say they were disenfranchised of money, just some other things.) But not to worry, if you do not demand, claim, or otherwise […]

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