Pa Rock's Ramble

Welcome to my cocktail of old writing scraps, special memories, and current personal opinion. Please feel free to comment, criticize, or remark in any way that makes you feel better. This effort is lovingly dedicated to my grandchildren - Boone, Sebastian, Judah, Willow, Olive, and Sullivan - golden portals to the future. May they all have a place at the table in a fair and just society. -- Pa Rock (Rocky Macy)

Monday, December 31, 2007

2007 Personal Highlights

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The year 2007 will pass into the history books later tonight, an event that causes me to reminisce about the year that was. Overall, it was...
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Sunday, December 30, 2007

Green Funerals

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Everyone knows that the funeral industry takes advantage of people when they are grieving and clearly vulnerable. In most states the laws r...
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Saturday, December 29, 2007

Blood, Glorious Blood!

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The film version of Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway classic, Sweeney Todd: The Demon of Fleet Street , opened this month to great reviews and sp...
Thursday, December 27, 2007

The Road to Arizona

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Each Christmas over the past four years has found me residing in a different state. Christmas 2004: I was living in Missouri and finishin...
Monday, December 24, 2007

Holiday Highlights

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Feliz Navidad Amigos, I have been in Missouri for the past few days celebrating the holidays with family and friends. There was no snow in ...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Taser Tag, Anyone?

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The other night as I was channel surfing, I came across a clip of a guy selling personal tasers. “Whoa!” I thought. “Saturday Night Live....
Monday, December 17, 2007

Molly Miranda Macy

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My daughter, Molly, was born thirty-one years ago today in Joplin, Missouri. I was in the delivery room the day that Molly was born, but o...
Sunday, December 16, 2007

Fall from Grace

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist The God that Fred Phelps worships is one mean bastard – and that’s the way old Fred likes Him! Fred isn...
Saturday, December 15, 2007

Whimsey

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by Rocky Macy Hillary, dillary, dock Barack ran up the clock Where he spoke with a passion (As was his fashion) Of ending the war in Iraq. H...
Friday, December 14, 2007

Home Again (5)

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by Rocky Macy (Part 5 of 5) As the ragged edge of morning’s first light crept into the cabin, Comfort was stirring ...
Thursday, December 13, 2007

Home Again (4)

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by Rocky Macy (Part 4 of 5) Ephram was fully awake and had Comfort and the baby gathered at his side on the old bed...
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Pa Rock
West Plains, Missouri, United States
I'm just me - a solitary wanderer who trekked across much of the world and recently retired to a small farm in the Ozarks. My checkered past includes time spent as an Army officer, high school teacher and principal, real estate broker, child protection worker and administrator, and social worker with the U.S. military. Over the years I have resided in a variety of places including Missouri, Virginia, Okinawa, Kansas, Kentucky, and Arizona. I have also traveled to Germany, Mexico, Canada, Russia, Sweden, Great Britain, Belize, Guatemala, Taiwan, Guam, South Korea, Vietnam, and numerous islands in the Caribbean - including Cuba. I have ridden in a Russian ambulance, hitch-hiked across Moscow late at night, fought an ostrich, celebrated New Year's at a street party in Hanoi, and bicycled across the Caribbean. My travels have taken me to Ground Zero in Hiroshima, the Bolshoi Ballet, China Beach, and the White House kitchen. The nine things in life that I am most proud of are my children: Nick, Molly, and Tim, and my grandchildren: Boone, Sebastian, Judah, Olive, Willow, and Sullivan. Life has been very good to me indeed!
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