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It has been said that . . .

. . . if you give a man a fish, he will be fed for a day, but if you teach a man to fish, he will be fed for a lifetime. Well, maybe not: in Pennsylvania, if you want to fish, whether for sport or because you need to feed your family, there are [...]

My Second-Born Died, Life Went On

On September 10, 1989, my second-born daughter Audréy Renée-Maree Hitchcock died. And life went on. For me, that meant I went to work on the day she died, after spending the night in a hospital basically waiting for her to die. I didn’t have a choice. Back then, I had a sub-contractor job of stuffing [...]

Monday Night Football

Has nothing to do with Pile-of-ticks, but it was an interesting game with two power outages.  But the little Factoid of the game is Pittsburgh played the 49ers and Pittsburgh lost.  The little interesting factoid is the 49ers are coached by Jim Harbaugh.  Earlier this season, the Steelers were beat twice by the Ravens who [...]