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Keith C. Milne
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📚 Exciting News! 📚Announcing My Debut Novel: The Unlikely Angel of Casco Bay”
Climate Change
If We All Want To Be Able To Continue To Live Comfortably On Earth, Then It’s Time To Rethink Almost Everything, And That, Unfortunately, Includes The Christmas Holiday!
The United States Needs To Fast-Track A New Era Of The Most Overlooked Low Carbon Energy Production Available Today: Nuclear Power!
Cultural
America: Will It Survive Being Taken For Granted?
I Am So Ashamed That I Called Myself A Republican For The First Twenty Years Of My Voting Life!
Reflections on Commercial Scale Culture and My Family
Sadly, Americans Need A Federal Law Mandating All Public Information Be Fact Checked Because Many Of Their Mass Media Companies Cannot Be Trusted To Tell The Truth!
Texting and Social Media Are No Substitutes For An Occasional Phone Call Or Actual Face To Face Visit!
Automobile Bullying And Road Rage: The new norm on America’s highways.
I Love Email: Letter Writing In The Blink Of An Eye!
Like it, or not, on Facebook
In Search Of “Culture”
Obstacles and Opportunities: A Personal Encounter With the Electronic Presentation of Self
Double Bound and Gagged: How Modern Cultural Changes and Expectations Have Created A Minefield For The Modern Man To Tiptoe Through
Frequent Relocation, High Divorce Rate, Substance Abuse, and Loss of Familial Cohesion: Historical Reflections On Commercial Scale Culture and Its Impact On My Family In Capitalistic America
Economics
Socialism With A Capitalist Economy-The Best system for PEOPLE!
America’s New Work Ethic: Do What You Want. Someone Else Will Take Care Of All Of It.
Stocks: The Simplest Legal Way To Make Money In The World?
Healthcare
Your Back Cries Out, Are You Listening?
Social Security And Medicare Continue To Confound And Baffle Even The Sharpest Retiree While Costing Everyone More Than They Ought To, Adding To Mounting Public Sentiment For A Simple, Single Payer Healthcare System In The United States.
The Mostly Private Healthcare System In The United States Is A Patchwork Quilt Of Corporate Greed And Disorganization That Needs To Be SIMPLIFIED!
Wastewater Operators-Frontline Workers With No Special Covid-19 Vaccination Privileges
It’s 4th and 1 for your life-get vaccinated NOW!
High time for single payor health care in the United States of America
We Are All Wounded By The World: the key is to recognize our wounds and heal them, then wear our scars quietly, like discreet badges of honor
After A Lifetime Of Maximizing My Time In The Sun, Here Are My Top Ten Reasons Why Summer Is Now My Least Favorite Season
Lifestyle
Creativity Can Be Your Happiness Cure, But It Requires New Choices, And A Little Effort!
Philip Michael Salter
The Fragility Of Manmade Structures Share Center Stage With Height And Velocity When You Jump Out Of A Perfectly Good Airplane From An Altitude Of 10,500 Ft!
Why I Keep Writing When No One is Reading!
How This Southern California Transplant To New England Came To Love And Prefer All Four Seasons Over The Nearly Constant Warmth Of The Southern United States!
Dogs Never Grow Up! So Why Is There No “Pet-Care” Tax Credit?
(I Hope It Will Be A) Happy New Year!
How To Eliminate Texting While Driving . . .
Slowing Down to the Speed Limit: How practicing “contrarian driving” improved my life.
I Love Email: Letter Writing In The Blink Of An Eye!
So much bad news these days that life should be called “badnews.com”
Living To Unlock the Secrets of Life: The Balancing Act of Formative Experiences, Self-Awareness, and Spiritual Growth
The Most Amazing Movie Of All Time Can Be Seen In 4K Just By Closing Your Eyes And Letting Your Imagination Wander, Or By Simply Enjoying The Film That Starts Up While You Read A Book.
One Manifestation Of The Chinese Concept Of Yin-Yang Is That Attempting To Live With Less Or Make Do With Less Most Often Requires More Of Many Things!
Short Fiction
The Unlikely Angel of Casco Bay
A Christmas Tree Tale
Gift Of A Lifetime
American Awakening
“Tempered Steel Heart”
What Do I Mean By . . .
“Just One” A Short Hemingway Pastiche
Technology
Self Driving Vehicles To The Rescue!
“Smartphones” Have Made Smart People Stupid For Choosing To Park Their Senses On The Side Of The Road As They Fall Deeper Into A Trance While Staring At Their Screens
Travel
Happy 25th Anniversary Connie! Still Together 9,125 Days Later. Only 9,125 Days To Go To Our Golden Anniversary!
An Amazing Bus Trip To Wall Drug, The Corn Palace, Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse Memorial, Custer State Park, Devil’s Tower, The National Museum of the Great Lakes and More
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