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What’s in a Name?

May 4, 2022 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Why are they Oligarchs in Russia but simply Billionaires here? “Oligarchy” from Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary: “1: government by the few; 2: a government in which a small group exercises … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Billionaires, Oligarchs, Wealth inequality

Just One Man’s Opinion

April 27, 2022 By Cam Miller 8 Comments

I am going to spill the beans. You already know I am a dog-person not a cat-person -- parallel devotions usually without intersection. So this will further alienate you or tickle your attention. Some … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: basketball, Best sport ever, Cats and Dogs

Get Supple

April 20, 2022 By Cam Miller 8 Comments

I am notorious in my family for moving furniture around. The desire to change a room used to come on me all of a sudden. Once we lived in a big 100-plus year old house and my wife would come home and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: brittle minds break, Get supple, practice change

On Writing Denim Spirit

April 13, 2022 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

A NOTE...to those reading this on my website rather than in the newspaper: Denim Spirit is a weekly column that appears each Wednesday in The Finger Lakes Times (NY. Cir. 30,000) and the references … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: "Calling", Gifts, writing

Is it okay to poison dogs?

April 6, 2022 By Cam Miller 3 Comments

I realize not everyone likes dogs. Some people prefer cats, some birds. Some get along with plants while others keep fish. I get it, or at least intellectually I accept it. But really, a dog... A … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT

Is it a wonderful life?

March 30, 2022 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

A haze of white flakes pelted my face with the temperature in the teens on Monday morning. Dog and I leaned in against the wind as March roared like a lion with forty mph wind gusts. By mid-morning I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: negative impact, ordinary saint, positive influence

Aging Spirits

March 23, 2022 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

Burris School, K-12, Muncie, Indiana I grew up in a Midwestern rust belt college town about the size of Utica, NY. When I was young the assembly lines were humming -- Westinghouse, Borg Warner … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Muncie, Privacy, Reunion

You and Me and Putin

March 16, 2022 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

Earth is a single cell in the body of something so vast we can’t even imagine it. All we can do is stutter the word, “God.” Cells are subject to cancer and neurodegenerative disease so the nucleus … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Cell, Earth, Putin

A River of Gratitude

March 9, 2022 By Cam Miller 12 Comments

I was an adjunct professor for five years and taught an introduction to the primal narratives in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. As it turned out, for some students it was also a writing boot … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: gratitude, Teaching, writing

You feeling down about things?

March 2, 2022 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

How are we to think about the world we live in just now? How can we incorporate all the dire information coming at us from different directions, and still make sense of the wonderful close-in world of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: diversify, Media, Negative news bias

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Each of these posts appeared first in The Finger Lakes Times (NY) as an entry in the weekly series, “Denim Spirit.”

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